Use the new .NET MCP Server project template to build, package, and publish an MCP Server

This video explores the new .NET AI MCP Server project template. This new template makes it easier to build, package, and distribute MCP Servers. The Model Context Protocol provides a powerful, standardized method of improving the contextual data and tools available to your AI models. So we have four goals for this video - get set up to work with this template, build a really basic MCP Server with it, package and push that MCP Server to NuGet, and then consume the package hosted on NuGet from GitHub Copilot, or any tool that supports MCP Server connections.

00:00 Intro
00:49 Template installation & prereqs
03:15 Create and explore the template project
07:25 Customize and test the MCP Server
11:20 Package and publish the project
14:54 Consume and test the packaged MCP Server
17:09 Bonus - Model Context Protocol overview

Microsoft blog post:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet...

.NET 10 download:
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/do...

VS Code download:
https://code.visualstudio.com/

GitHub Copilot:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/...

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