🔹 Feature: Generative AI for Beginners .NET — Free Microsoft Course
🔹 What It Does: Five hands-on lessons from Microsoft teaching .NET developers how to actually build Generative AI applications — not just read theory. Short videos, fully working C# code samples, GitHub Codespaces-ready setup, and coverage from your first chat completion to multi-agent systems with the Microsoft Agent Framework. Free, MIT-licensed, 2.5k+ stars and counting.
What Is It Giving You:
✅ Practical, Not Theoretical: Short 5–10 minute videos, complete runnable .NET code, step-by-step guidance. Live coding over slides.
✅ Multi-Backend Setup: Azure OpenAI / Microsoft Foundry for production-grade samples, OR Ollama for local model hosting on your own hardware.
✅ Microsoft Agent Framework Samples (RC): 25+ samples covering console apps, web chat, multi-agent workflows, and Foundry integration. Plus dedicated Claude (Haiku/Sonnet/Opus) integration samples via Microsoft Foundry — including Blazor web chat.
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✅ Zero Friction Setup: One PowerShell script (./setup.ps1) deploys Azure OpenAI + embeddings, configures .NET User Secrets, and you’re coding. Cleanup script included.
✅ Available in 8 Languages: Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Japanese, Korean, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese — plus English.
For every .NET dev tired of generic “what is an LLM” posts and ready to actually ship something — this is the shortest path from dotnet new to a working AI app. 🚀
🌐 https://github.com/microsoft/Generative-AI-for-beginners-dotnet
