AI in C# using the Microsoft Agent Framework

Hi, and welcome to the course 'AI in C# using the Microsoft Agent Framework.'

My name is Rasmus, and I will be taking you through how you can use AI in your C# Apps using Microsoft's Agent Framework (The replacement of Semantic Kernel)...

The content will revolve around what I call the 4 main concepts of AI that will lay a solid foundation for working with AI

Those 4 concepts are:

1. Chat (General Q&A Capabilities)
Either as a real chat or behind the scenes

2. Tools Calling (Ability to call User-code)
Live interaction with other systems for data queries and commands

3. Structured Output (More structured responses)
Get AI responses back in JSON format instead of messages

4. Retrival Augmented Generation (RAG)

Give your own data to AI by turning Text into Search Vectors

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In order to follow along in the course, I expect you to be proficient in C#, meaning I will teach you the AI parts, but will assume you know the C# language fully.

You will also need an IDE like Visual Studio or similar (I will be using VS2026)

Finally, you will need access to a Large Language Model... If you do not have that already, don't worry, I will show you how to get such access...

In the course, I will demo OpenAI and Azure OpenAI

Let's get started!