Microsoft announced two related updates for Visual Studio: support for bringing your own model (BYOM) to Copilot Chat and general availability of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) client in the IDE.

Microsoft has declared general availability for MCP (model context protocol) servers in Visual Studio, likely to be the second most popular IDE after Visual Studio Code and with wide enterprise use.… ...

However, approach with caution: MCP servers are increasingly becoming a new way to hijack systems or launch cyberattacks, research shows. Microsoft has added Model Context Protocol (MCP) support to ...

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OpenAI is rolling out support for MCP, an open-source technology that large language models can use to perform tasks in external systems and access the data they contain. OpenAI Chief Executive ...

Microsoft's AI Toolkit extension for VS Code now includes a Tool Catalog that can scaffold a Python or TypeScript MCP server with the core transport and registration plumbing already set up. In ...