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How to take an existing ASP.NET Core MCP server built with the official .NET SDK and run it on Azure Functions as a self-hosted custom handler.

How Microsoft Agent Framework agents can work with images and PDFs, where native multimodal support helps, and why provider differences still matter.

How to connect Microsoft Agent Framework agents to private application knowledge without stuffing full documents into the prompt.

How to build a Streamable HTTP MCP server with the official .NET SDK, containerize it, deploy it to Azure Container Apps, and call it from a C# client.

When to use Microsoft Agent Framework workflows for explicit, observable, resumable, long-running orchestration, and why normal C# code is often the better choice.

How to delegate work between Microsoft Agent Framework agents by exposing focused agents as function tools, and when this is better than manual routing or a workflow engine.

Why CancellationToken matters more in .NET AI systems, and how to pass it through LLM calls, streaming responses, embeddings, retrieval, and tool execution.

How to route requests between specialized Microsoft Agent Framework agents with a cheap intent agent, structured output, and a normal C# switch statement.

How to extend Microsoft Agent Framework agents with MCP tools and Agent Skills, when to use each model, and what trust boundaries to keep around external servers, local files, and scripts.

Use structured output in Microsoft Agent Framework to turn LLM responses into typed C# objects that can be validated, tested, and used safely in application code.