Build intelligent AI agents in .NET with the Microsoft Agent Framework. Learn how to create agents with tools, multi-turn conversations, memory, and graph-based workflows that bring together the building blocks from Parts 1 and 2.

Discover how Microsoft.Extensions.VectorData brings unified vector database access to .NET - one interface for semantic search across any vector store with built-in support for embeddings, filtering, and RAG patterns.

Learn how Microsoft.Extensions.AI provides a unified API for building intelligent .NET applications with any LLM provider - one interface, endless possibilities, with built-in middleware, telemetry, structured outputs and more.

A practical introduction to modern AI for .NET developers.

Learn how to generate images from natural language prompts using the universal abstractions in Microsoft's extensions for .NET AI.

Go beyond a simple demo app that demonstrates a chat bot and explore a real-world scale application that is infused with AI and illustrates the value of intelligent apps with features like semantic search, summarization, classification, sentiment scoring, chatbot, test data generation, evaluation tool, and E2E testing.

An introduction to identity in .NET 8 with code examples to secure APIs, generate a Blazor-based UI and integrate authentication into Blazor WebAssembly apps.

Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is being renamed as part of unification with the expanded Microsoft Entra identity and network access product family. This is a name change only and does not require any direct action from .NET developers.

The ASP.NET Core team shares their plans to improve authentication, authorization, and identity management in .NET 8.

.NET 8 Preview 1 introduces a roadmap for the year ahead, native AOT compilation, enhanced container and Linux support, and significant performance improvements.