EShop.MCP.Server.V1

This is a demonstration of Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration with e-commerce applications. Here's what the projects accomplish and why they're valuable for learning MCP:

Why This Is Valuable for Your eShop Site

This approach lets you:

• Enable AI shopping assistants that can actually recommend intelligent shopping experience

The demo shows that MCP isn't just about adding a chat panel to your site—it's about creating true AI agents that can perform complex, multi-step operations.

Steps

Create MCP Server from this repo and to make the published exe,

dotnet publish -c Release -o .\bin\publish

Included is the mcp.json so that one can utilize VSCode as the MCP host.

{
    "servers": {
        "eshop": {
            "command": "C:\\Projects\\MCP\\eShop.MCP.Server\\bin\\publish\\eShop.MCP.Server.exe",
            "env": {
                "ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT": "Development"
            }
        }
    }    
}

Clone https://github.com/dotnet/eShop and run it

dotnet run --project src/eShop.AppHost/eShop.AppHost.csproj

Make sure that you would have to run docker to run the eShop.