Microsoft opens an MCP server to its Learn/documentation material

It's very likely you are already using AI to help you in software development, including writing C# code. I do the same.

However, you might have noticed one thing: the code generated by AI (say, GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio, GhatGPT or Claude) is often lagging behind the latest C# features, or .NET library possibilities. This is because the models need to be taught, and there's a time between the latest information ingestion and the availability of the model to the users.

To allow today's AI understand the latest documentation, Microsoft has created an MCP server to allow AI to fetch that information directly from the most up-to-date documentation. This is a very good innovation, and I believe other companies with large and updating documentation sets might follow suit.

For more information, check Microsoft's blog post on this. Source code is available on GitHub.