How I Finally Got an MCP Server Running with .NET 9 Last Tuesday, a Slack DM from our DevOps lead about "context window exhaustion" got me thinking. We've been hitting the limits with direct API calls to Claude Opus 4.7 for some of our internal workflow automation tools. The sheer volume of domain-specific context we need to feed was becoming unwieldy, and frankly, expensive. That's when I remembered hearing whispers about the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and how it's designed to give you more granular control over context management. I figured, why not try to build a simple mcp server csharp implementation myself? Honestly, I was skeptical. Another protocol, another layer of abstraction. But the idea of potentially offloading complex context assembly from the model provider's API and managing it locally, closer to our data, was too tempting to ignore.…