Visual Studio Magazine

Azure MCP Server 1.0 Ushers in Agentic Cloud Automation

Microsoft's new Azure MCP Server 1.0 connects AI agents to more than 47 Azure services, simplifying automation and DevOps ...
GitHub

[BUG] Azure mcp VS Code extension can register duplicate tools

Azure MCP may appear to have duplicate sets of tools in VS Code. I am not sure if this is an Azure MCP bug or VS Code bug. Install Azure MCP Server extension in VS Code Wait for the tools to load ...
IEEE

SecLLM-Intent-Driven Orchestration of Heterogeneous Security Devices via MCP Function Calling and Retrieval-Augmented Generation

Abstract: Heterogeneous security infrastructures-network-detection, endpoint-detection, threat-intelligence and ticketing systems-remain siloed, impeding real-time collaboration and prolonging ...
GitHub

Activity map shows MCP output successfully, LLM couldn't see the output

What sample tool are you using? I am currently using Azure function MCP trigger, integrated with the copilot studio via tool (type MCP, enabled). It works and in the activity map, I can clearly see ...
marktechpost

Model Context Protocol (MCP) vs Function Calling vs OpenAPI Tools — When to Use Each?

Orchestration Host routes across many servers/tools App-local chaining Agent/toolkit routes intents → operations ...