Build a production-ready Research Assistant AI agent using Python. Complete tutorial covering async patterns, @ai_function decorators, multi-turn conversations, and best practices.
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Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, United States that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975 to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems.
Microsoft would also come to dominate the office suite market with Microsoft Office. The company has diversified in recent years into the video game industry with the Xbox and its successor, the Xbox 360 as well as into the consumer electronics and digital services market with Zune, MSN and the Windows Phone OS. The ensuing rise of stock in the company’s 1986 initial public offering (IPO) made an estimated three billionaires and 12,000 millionaires…
Building Your First AI Agent with Microsoft Agent Framework (.NET) – Part 2
Build a production-ready Customer Support AI agent using C# and .NET 8. Complete tutorial covering project setup, tools, multi-turn conversations, middleware, and error handling.
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Introduction: Building distributed applications has always been one of the most challenging aspects of modern software development. The complexity of service discovery, configuration management, health monitoring, and observability can overwhelm teams before they write a single line of business logic. .NET Aspire, Microsoft’s opinionated framework for cloud-native development, fundamentally changes this equation. After spending months […]
Read more →Introduction to Microsoft Agent Framework: The Open-Source Engine for Agentic AI Apps (Part 1)
Learn about Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF), the unified open-source SDK for building production-ready AI agents. This comprehensive guide covers the architecture, key features, and how MAF combines the best of Semantic Kernel and AutoGen for enterprise agentic AI development.
Read more →The IDE Wars Are Over: How Visual Studio 2025 and Modern Developer Tools Changed Everything
🎓 AUTHORITY NOTE Based on 20+ years using every major IDE from Visual Studio .NET 2003 to today’s AI-powered tools. This represents hands-on experience leading teams through multiple IDE migrations and tool standardizations. Executive Summary Remember when developers would argue passionately about whether Visual Studio, VS Code, JetBrains, or Vim was the “right” choice? Those […]
Read more →The Evolution of .NET: Why Modern C# Development Feels Like a Different Language
If you’ve been writing C# for more than a decade, you’ve witnessed something remarkable: the language you learned in the early 2000s bears only a superficial resemblance to what we write today. Modern C# development feels like a different language entirely. C# Syntax Evolution: 2002 vs 2025 The Transformation Journey When .NET Framework first appeared, […]
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