In Visual Studio: MCP lets Copilot pull live project data to inform edits or actions. Developers can add mcp.json to their solution or use shared configurations such as .vscode/mcp.json. In VS Code: ...

If you want to configure VS Code for Microsoft C++ and make sure that its compiler is working. Working solutions have been mentioned in this post.

These surprising Visual Studio Code extensions aren't just for writing and editing code—though they'll also help you do that.