Microsoft now ships Azure MCP tools as part of the Azure development workload in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.14.30 or higher. Other MCP-related items that later appeared in the Visual Studio 2022 17 ...
Microsoft took an extra week to ship the new Visual Studio Code 1.101 (May 2025) release, which is today available with a host of improvements around advanced AI and the Model Context Protocol (MCP).