Microsoft Product Manager Mike Kistler previews his Visual Studio Live! session on how MCP servers give .NET developers a universal standard for connecting AI models to external data and tools -- and ...

An MCP Server is a simple program that lets AI models securely access data and tools using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). FastMCP is a Python framework that helps you build MCP servers and clients.

Microsoft announced that Azure MCP Server capabilities are now included out-of-the-box in Visual Studio 2026, which went GA this week and rewrote the usual long form of the acronym IDE, turning it ...

What if the key to unlocking faster, smarter AI coding wasn’t just about the algorithms or the models, but the tools you use to manage them? In the world of AI development, Model Control Panel (MCP) ...

What if integrating powerful AI tools into your workflows was as simple as plugging in a USB drive? For years, developers have wrestled with the complexities of connecting large language models (LLMs) ...

Model context protocol (MCP) gives IT teams a standardized way to connect large language models (LLMs) to tools and data sources when developing AI-based workflows. But security researchers warn that ...

What does it take to get OpenAI and Anthropic—two competitors in the AI assistant market—to get along? Despite a fundamental difference in direction that led Anthropic’s founders to quit OpenAI in ...

Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, a relatively new idea from Anthropic to connect advanced AI systems with tools, data sources and other resources so they can act as autonomous agents, is now ...