With .NET 6 and the latest Visual Studio 2022 preview, developers can create a hybrid Blazor/.NET MAUI app that can work with local machine resources in ways that ordinary Blazor (web) apps can't.

As the industry standard integrated development environment for any app, language, or platform, the regular retail price of $499 for Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2022 for Windows makes sense.

Additionally, project templates now use Vite instead of create-react-app and vue cli for faster builds and server start. In general, Visual Studio 2022 17.7 got positive feedback from the community.