"What MCP server would be helpful to use with Copilot in Visual Studio? I want to write one." With that May 6 social media post, Mads Kristensen, a principal program manager at Microsoft, solicited ...

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 ...

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 ...

Latest VS Code release improves AI agent integration with backing for Model Context Protocol server prompts, resources, sampling, and authorization. Visual Studio Code 1.101, aka the May 2025 version ...

The largest software code repository on the planet, GitHub, is making its Copilot AI co-developer a whole lot more agentic with an increased context of tools and services powered by the world's ...

Microsoft's free source code editor Visual Studio Code has some new features to offer in version 1.102. The June release brings additional functions for the AI-based GitHub Copilot Chat, general ...