Pieter de Bruin

VS Code is the top client of Learn MCP Server. I was investigating why Visual Studio is lower on the list, what it looks like and what can be improved.

So I thought it would be good to create a one-click install link. The below link works when pasted in a browser, however GitHub has a security feature to only accept http(s) links and rewrite anything else to camo.githubusercontent.com. So this is also a test to see if the blog does accept it.

vsweb+mcp:/install?%7B%22name%22%3A%22microsoft.docs.mcp%22%2C%22type%22%3A%22http%22%2C%22url%22%3A%22https%3A%2F%2Flearn.microsoft.com%2Fapi%2Fmcp%22%7D%0A

Visual Studio with Learn MCP Server configured in mcp.json, showing GitHub Copilot Chat running a microsoft_docs_search query for Azure storage

VS Code has a nice workaround using https://vscode.dev/redirect/mcp/install. Visual Studio doesn’t have this (yet).

Update 20250924: I spoke with Gerald Versluis, who brought this up in his team, and they delivered Visual Studio protocol handlers. Thanks!

Install in Visual Studio

Also works in VS2026 Insiders!

Visual Studio 2026 Insiders about dialog alongside GitHub Copilot Chat using Learn MCP Server to search for Azure AI Foundry CLI docs

Thanks for reading! :-)

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