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Patrick Kearns

Senior .Net Engineer

Jul 8

Should Your .NET App Expose an MCP Server?

AI features in .NET apps are starting to move past the simple chat box. At first, Devs usually adds one model call. The app sends a prompt, gets a response, and shows it to the user. That is easy enou

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Henry Collins

I think that's the key takeaway: MCP isn't the security model, it's just the protocol. If the same business rules, authorization, and validation aren't enforced behind the MCP layer, you've only created a new entry point into your system. Keeping tools narrow and exposing business capabilities instead of internals is probably the biggest design win for production AI apps.

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Evelyn Wyatt

Creating High-Impact Content for AI, SaaS, Software, and the Future of Technology.

Jul 10

One point that stood out is that exposing an MCP server should be a business decision rather than following a technology trend. At IT Path Solutions, we've seen that MCP delivers the most value when existing APIs already expose meaningful business capabilities. In those cases, AI agents become significantly more useful without requiring a complete application redesign. I'm curious to see how more enterprises balance AI accessibility with security and governance as MCP adoption grows.