AI apps for .NET developers

Learn to build AI apps with .NET. Browse sample code, tutorials, quickstarts, conceptual articles, and more.

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Overview

• Develop .NET apps with AI features
• Microsoft Agent Framework
• Microsoft.Extensions.AI libraries

Get started

• Connect to and prompt an AI model
• Build an Azure AI chat app
• Generate images from text

Essential concepts

Concept

• How generative AI and LLMs work
• Build agents to automate workflows
• Preserve semantic meaning with embeddings
• Semantic search with vector databases
• Data ingestion
• Retrieval-augmented generation

Common tasks

How-To Guide

• Authenticate App Service to Azure OpenAI
• Access data in AI functions
• Use Microsoft.ML.Tokenizers for text tokenization

Training

Tutorial

• Develop an AI agent with Microsoft Agent Framework
• Plan and prepare to develop AI solutions on Azure
• Generate conversations Azure OpenAI completions
• .NET enterprise chat sample using RAG

Tutorials

Tutorial

• Scale Azure OpenAI with Azure Container Apps
• .NET enterprise chat sample using RAG
• Implement RAG using vector search
• Evaluate a model's response

External resources

sample

• Get started resources
• Azure AI resources
• MCP server resources