ai-workshop
Active·★ 60·MIT·Updated 2026-10-19
This workshop guides .NET developers in building AI applications, covering integration with Azure AI Foundry, vector data stores, and new .NET AI project templates. Participants will gain hands-on experience by constructing a complete AI-powered web application featuring an AI chatbot and semantic search over a product catalog.
#.NET AI#RAG#Azure OpenAI#Vector Database#Chatbot#Blazor#Semantic Search#LLM Integration
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Features
01AI Chatbot for conversational interaction and product inquiries
02AI-generated product descriptions and categories for a product catalog
03Semantic search utilizing vector embeddings for efficient document retrieval
04Integration with Azure AI Foundry (Azure OpenAI) for powerful AI models
05Support for local models (Foundry Local / Ollama) and fallback mechanisms for AI providers
02
Compatibility
.NET
Runtime
Verified via docs
Visual Studio
IDE
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Visual Studio Code
IDE
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Docker
Orchestration
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Podman
Orchestration
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Azure AI Foundry
AI Provider
Verified via docs
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Quick start
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$ dotnet new install Microsoft.Extensions.AI.Templates
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Use cases
↳Building intelligent customer service chatbots for product information
↳Enhancing e-commerce platforms with AI-generated content and semantic search
↳Developing RAG-based applications for querying large knowledge bases
↳Learning best practices for deploying .NET AI applications from development to production on Azure
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