Lifetime access to Visual Studio Pro 2026 is only $30

MacworldTL;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,