The .NET AI Stack: Building AI-Enabled Systems on .NET

Presenter: Mike Yeager

When: Wednesday, July 8, 2026, 12:00 pm Central Time (CT)

Duration: 75 minutes (approximately)

The .NET AI landscape has changed dramatically in just a few short years, and keeping pace can feel like a full-time job. In this webinar, Mike Yeager — a developer who has been building production AI solutions in .NET since the earliest days of generative AI — will walk you through the modern .NET AI stack, from the foundational Microsoft.Extensions.AI abstractions to the new Agent Framework (Microsoft.Agents.AI). You'll learn when to reach for low-level tools like IChatClient and when to step up to Agent Framework's higher-level power, using both local and remote models along the way.

Through real code samples, Mike will show you how to build agents with custom tools, manage multi-turn conversations, integrate MCP servers, and get reliable structured output from your AI — without hand-rolling all the plumbing yourself. Whether you're new to AI in .NET or ready to move beyond Semantic Kernel, this webinar gives you a clear, practical picture of today's toolset and the confidence to choose the right option for the job.

Topics in this webinar are based on Mike's recent article for CODE Magazine, The .NET AI Stack