--- title: VS Gets AI Agents + MCP C# SDK 2.0 and More | daily.dev description: Welcome to your weekly roundup of some Microsoft news in 2 minutes. The gist: Microsoft shipped an agent preview inside Visual Studio built on the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/vs-gets-ai-agents-mcp-c-sdk-2-0-and-more-gkwllc5o9 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: VS Gets AI Agents + MCP C# SDK 2.0 and More | daily.dev og:description: Welcome to your weekly roundup of some Microsoft news in 2 minutes. The gist: Microsoft shipped an agent preview inside Visual Studio built on the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/vs-gets-ai-agents-mcp-c-sdk-2-0-and-more-gkwllc5o9 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/gKwLlC5O9.png og:image:alt: VS Gets AI Agents + MCP C# SDK 2.0 and More og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # VS Gets AI Agents + MCP C# SDK 2.0 and More **[Microsoft Developer](https://daily.dev/sources/microsoftdeveloper)** · 2 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Welcome to your weekly roundup of some Microsoft news in 2 minutes. The gist: Microsoft shipped an agent preview inside Visual Studio built on the same GitHub Copilot SDK that powers Copilot CLI, plus Foundry model updates and MCP C# SDK 2.0. Here's the Microsoft Developer news worth paying attention to this week in The Upload. Links for more: https://aka.ms/devblogs.microsoft.com/ai https://aka.ms/devblogs_visual_studio_update https://aka.ms/devblogs_foundry_update In this episode: → Visual Studio agent preview — built on the GitHub Copilot SDK behind Copilot CLI, with built-in Azure and .NET skills authored by Microsoft engineering teams. Designed for larger tasks with less back-and-forth. → Why Copilot is converging on one agent platform across Visual Studio, VS Code, GitHub, and the CLI — a consistent agent experience on every surface. → Microsoft Foundry updates — [MODEL NAME: TBD] image generation, [MODEL NAME: TBD] transcription, more model options, and expanded tooling for agent development. → Why the advantage is shifting from access to a model to access to a complete AI platform. → MCP C# SDK 2.0 — the latest MCP spec, stateless-first communication, and improved interoperability. → Why MCP is becoming the integration layer for AI agents the way APIs were for everything before. 📺 Subscribe for a new Upload every week. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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