Modern Software Engineering

VSW07 Opening Up Your App to AI Agents: A Practical Guide to MCP with .NET

11/18/2026

9:30am - 10:45am

Level: Intermediate

Marcel de Vries

Global MD & CTO

Xebia

Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an emerging standard designed to help AI agents interact with your software in meaningful, context-rich ways. As AI agents become more and more capable, MCP is a the enabler for also making your own applications discoverable, interoperable, and part of the broader agent ecosystem. In this session, we’ll start with the essentials: what MCP is, how does it work, and how t is revolutionizing he world of agent-based AI. Next we will dive into code — building a basic MCP server using C# and .NET Core, and showing you how to open up parts of your existing application to respond to contextual queries from AI agents and tools. Whether you're working on internal tools or commercial products, you’ll leave this session with a solid foundation to start integrating MCP in your tools and enterprise applications and preparing your organization for the AI-powered future.

You will learn:

  • Introduction to MCP
  • Functional cohesive modeling of your MCP Endpoint
  • Modernize Legacy Applications with MCP