TL;DR: Get Visual Studio Pro for life on sale for $29.97 (reg. $499.99) through August 23.
Visual Studio Pro is an extremely popular IDE, but it’s also expensive to license. If you don’t want to pay recurring fees, you can buy Visual Studio Pro outright as a lifetime license for $29.97 (reg. $499.99).
Once you have it up and running, you can use Visual Studio Pro to build cross-platform mobile and desktop apps with .NET MAUI, write web UIs in C# with Blazor, and debug .NET and C++ projects targeting Windows, Linux, and containers. Hot reload drops your code changes into a running app instantly, so you stop restarting after every tweak. Azure and GitHub plug straight into the workflow when you push to the cloud.
IntelliCode studies your codebase and finishes lines and whole blocks from the patterns it picks up, then ranks the next moves so you type less. CodeLens surfaces recent changes, authors, test status, and commit history without leaving the editor. Live Share runs live sessions with teammates who never clone the repo or install dependencies first.
Pay once and stop renting your development environment.
Until August 23 at 11:59 p.m. PT, you can get Visual Studio Pro 2026 for life for $30.
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