Rethink your dev setup with Microsoft’s Visual Studio Professional for only $43

TL;DR: Get Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2026 for $42.97 (reg. $499.99) and streamline your workflow with AI-assisted ...
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Microsoft Keeps Adding VS 2026 MCP Functionality to VS 2022, but Not Much Else

Microsoft now ships Azure MCP tools as part of the Azure development workload in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.14.30 or higher. Other MCP-related items that later appeared in the Visual Studio 2022 17 ...
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.NET 11 Previews Focus on Nuts-and-Bolts Coding -- AI Not So Much

Remember when you had to really dig in concentrate and understand exactly how C# and other code worked at the most basic levels? Then you'll like Microsoft's early preview of .NET 11.