Tooling

Building an MCP Server in .NET Without Buying the Hype

Building an MCP Server in .NET Without Buying the Hype

MCP is JSON-RPC with conventions, not magic. This guide builds a Model Context Protocol server in .NET with the official SDK: stdio and Streamable HTTP transports, tightly-scoped typed tools, JWT authentication, prompt-injection defenses, OpenTelemetry tracing, and the production failure modes the demos never mention.