At Microsoft Construct, Microsoft unveiled updates throughout the .NET ecosystem, together with AI improvements, new options for cloud-native improvement, common availability of .NET Aspire, and extra capabilities within the upcoming .NET 9.
Microsoft and OpenAI’s ongoing partnership has resulted within the creation of an official OpenAI .NET library, which shall be accessible in a couple of weeks. The library gives parity with .NET and different programming languages, gives a unified expertise throughout OpenAI and Azure OpenAI, and provides entry to OpenAI options and fashions, together with GPT-4o and Assistants v2.
Microsoft can also be engaged on a partnership with Weavite to offer .NET vector database choices. Moreover, a number of of its inside groups (Semantic Kernel, Azure SQL, and Azure AI Search) have been working behind-the-scenes to construct a seamless developer expertise for working with AI.
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The corporate additionally added new quick-start samples that give builders concepts for working with LLM frameworks, akin to Microsoft’s personal Semantic Kernel.
Microsoft can also be engaged on a number of new options throughout .NET Aspire, Semantic Kernel, and Azure that can assist builders monitor their LLM apps, now in preview. As an example, .NET Aspire can be utilized to gather metrics and traces from Semantic Kernel.
“Giant language mannequin (LLM) purposes require dependable, performant, and high-quality outcomes. Builders have to measure and monitor the outcomes and behaviors of their LLM purposes in each improvement and manufacturing environments and establish and resolve any points,” the .NET crew wrote in a weblog publish.
On a associated word, .NET Aspire, which brings collectively instruments, templates, and NuGet packages to allow the event of distributed apps, is now usually accessible.
“Whether or not you’re constructing a brand new utility, including cloud-native capabilities to an current one, or are already deploying .NET apps to manufacturing within the cloud at the moment, .NET Aspire will help you get there sooner,” the .NET crew wrote.
The corporate additionally invested additional in cloud-native improvement. New enhancements there embrace smaller .NET container photographs, sooner app startup instances, and new options and libraries in ASP.NET Core for streamlining cloud-native eventualities.
And at last, Microsoft revealed the fourth preview of .NET 9, which is predicted later this yr. New options embrace assist for generic parameters in “UnsafeProcessorAttribute,” a brand new server rubbish collector mode, function switches with trimming assist, and extra.
A full listing of Microsoft’s bulletins round .NET at Microsoft Construct will be present in Microsoft’s official weblog publish.
