Tutorial: Set Up an MCP Server With .NET and GitHub Copilot

There has been an explosion of interest in Model Context Protocol (MCP), which is a good sign that people are trying to build different solutions using Large Language Models (LLMs), but now with their own systems. MCP is the middleman between LLMs and your tools.

After doing a short Python example with Claude Code, I thought I’d expand with a C# version using Github Copilot — all within Visual Studio Code. The advantage of using an IDE is that we will get the chance to integrate with other MCP servers without leaving the IDE.

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