What is MCP? A gentle explanation of the mechanism and how it differs from APIs for non-engineers

"I kind of understand what an API is, but now what is MCP?" "Is this also something that connects apps together?"When you use ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Hands On: Building an MCP Server with VS Code AI Toolkit's New Tool Catalog

Microsoft's AI Toolkit extension for VS Code now includes a Tool Catalog that can scaffold a Python or TypeScript MCP server with the core transport and registration plumbing already set up. In ...

Agentic AI Foundation Launches MCPA Certification to Validate MCP Expertise

The Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF), the neutral home where the agentic stack is being built, announced the Model Context ...
XDA Developers

I built a full-stack Python app using only local LLMs and the Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Shekhar Vaidya is a veteran technology journalist and computer science engineer. He is the founder of TechLatest, where he has spent years providing technical analysis on hardware and Windows ...