Every good series starts small, and this one is no exception. In the opening video of this Azure AI + C# series, Mike sets up the simplest possible integration between a .NET 10 console app and Azure OpenAI, using the Microsoft Agent Framework’s chat client. The app sends a single prompt, prints the model’s reply, and logs how many tokens were used, with no observability or cost tracking layered on top yet. The point of this episode isn’t the code itself, which is deliberately minimal, but the foundation it sets for everything that follows: as the series progresses, this same basic pattern gets extended with logging, agent behavior, and API management, so it’s worth understanding exactly how the client, the model, and the token count fit together before things get more complex.
The code for this sample is here: https://github.com/michaelstephensonuk/azure-ai-samples/tree/main/01.helloworld
