Visual Studio Professional 2026 is down to just $30

Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 is on sale for $29.97. The IDE includes AI coding assistance, Live Share ...
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Building and Using MCP Servers in Visual Studio

MCP (Model Context Protocol) provides a universal standard for connecting LLMs to external data sources and tools, eliminating the need to manually copy-paste context into a chat session and enabling ...

Skip the expensive IDE bill — own Visual Studio 2026 for $29.97

TL;DR: Grab Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 for $29.97 (MSRP $499.99). A great development environment doesn’t magically write your code for you—but it can make writing, testing, and ...
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Dev Revisits Visual Studio After Nearly a Decade, Gets Lost in AI-Era Completion Maze

A hobby coder's rough return to Visual Studio highlights how IntelliSense, IntelliCode and GitHub Copilot have created several overlapping layers of code completion -- along with settings intended to ...