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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Latest release of Microsoft’s code editor also adds support for Git worktrees and the ability to checkpoint and restore different states of Copilot chat conversations. The newly released Visual Studio ...