Introducing the Visual Studio MCP Server!

[giscus[bot]]

Introducing the Visual Studio MCP Server!

JetBrains is shipping MCP servers for their IDEs. Visual Studio isn't. So I wrote one. This extension exposes Visual Studio features through the Model Context Protocol - solutions, documents, builds, and more - enabling AI assistants like Claude to interact with your IDE.

https://www.codingwithcalvin.net/introducing-the-visual-studio-mcp-server/

[hurricanepkt]

Seems like an interesting tool. Just a small edit on VS26 starting and stopping the server is by Extensions->MCP Server-> Start Server

[CalvinAllen]

Fixed, thanks!

[LadislavSopko]

Versione pulita:

Hello,

Nice job! You did a complementary extension to mine. I exposed all the Roslyn/IntelliSense features. We could work in tandem and
save time.

Check it out: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=LadislavSopko.mcpserverforvs

You can even open multiple Visual Studio instances for different libraries you use in your main project. In tandem with your
extension, it's complete.

Mine works fine with huge solutions (only build sometimes struggles, testing is async).

I'm here if you want to collaborate :) It was a nightmare to do it in-process, but it works!

Laco.