Use file-based C# apps for small utilities
A quick .NET 10 tip for running a single C# file without creating a project, with package directives, argument passing, conversion, and preview multi-file support.
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Human-in-the-Loop Agents: When the AI Must Ask Before Acting
How to implement human-in-the-loop approval flows in Microsoft Agent Framework for risky tool calls, side effects, workflow state, and resumable review.
Deploy a .NET MCP server to Azure Functions
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.
Microsoft Agent Framework Multimodal Agents: Images, PDFs, and Provider Differences
How Microsoft Agent Framework agents can work with images and PDFs, where native multimodal support helps, and why provider differences still matter.
Agent Framework RAG for Agents: Giving Your Agent the Right Context
How to connect Microsoft Agent Framework agents to private application knowledge without stuffing full documents into the prompt.
Build and deploy an MCP server with .NET and Azure Container Apps
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.
Microsoft Agent Framework Workflows: When to Use Them and When to Stay in C#
When to use Microsoft Agent Framework workflows for explicit, observable, resumable, long-running orchestration, and why normal C# code is often the better choice.
Agents as Tools in Microsoft Agent Framework
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
Why CancellationToken matters more in .NET AI systems, and how to pass it through LLM calls, streaming responses, embeddings, retrieval, and tool execution.
Manual Multi-Agent Routing in .NET
How to route requests between specialized Microsoft Agent Framework agents with a cheap intent agent, structured output, and a normal C# switch statement.