Building Your First MCP Server with .NET: A Developer's Guide to Model Context Protocol

Connecting Large Language Models (LLMs) to external services is becoming a key part of modern application development. Model Context Protocol (MCP) offers a standard way to let LLMs interact with tools and APIs, making these integrations more structured and predictable. In this practical guide, I'll explain: What MCP (Model Context Protocol) is and how it works? How to build your first MCP Server using .NET? How to integrate it with the Cursor code editor (- MCP Client -)? References https://engincanveske.substack.com/p/... ⏳Chapters: 0:00 What is an MCP Server? 5:04 Example: Getting the Current Time in Cursor (Without an MCP Server) 7:26 Building Our Own MCP Server in .NET 11:51 Integrating with an MCP Client (Cursor Code Editor) 17:16 Testing the MCP Server and Client Integration 20:28 Wrap-Up (Don’t Forget to Subscribe!) #llm #llms #mcp #modelcontextprotocol #aiagents #dotnet