Mscc.GenerativeAI.Microsoft 2.8.22

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NuGet\Install-Package Mscc.GenerativeAI.Microsoft -Version 2.8.22
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<PackageReference Include="Mscc.GenerativeAI.Microsoft" Version="2.8.22" />
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<PackageVersion Include="Mscc.GenerativeAI.Microsoft" Version="2.8.22" />
                    


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paket add Mscc.GenerativeAI.Microsoft --version 2.8.22
                    


                    

                
#r "nuget: Mscc.GenerativeAI.Microsoft, 2.8.22"
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#:package Mscc.GenerativeAI.Microsoft@2.8.22
#:package directive can be used in C# file-based apps starting in .NET 10 preview 4. Copy this into a .cs file before any lines of code to reference the package. 
#addin nuget:?package=Mscc.GenerativeAI.Microsoft&version=2.8.22
                    


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#tool nuget:?package=Mscc.GenerativeAI.Microsoft&version=2.8.22
                    


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MSCC GenerativeAI for .NET integrating with Microsoft.Extensions.AI and Microsoft Semantic Kernel.

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Integrate Gemini API into your .NET applications using Microsoft.Extensions.AI. This package implements the IChatClient, IEmbeddingGenerator and IImageGenerator interfaces offering a unified experience for .NET applications and libraries.

Benefits of Microsoft.Extensions.AI

Microsoft.Extensions.AI offers a unified API abstraction for AI services, similar to our successful logging and dependency injection (DI) abstractions. Our goal is to provide standard implementations for caching, telemetry, tool calling, and other common tasks that work with any provider.

Read more Introducing Microsoft.Extensions.AI Preview – Unified AI Building Blocks for .NET

Getting started

To get started, you can create a console application and install the Mscc.GenerativeAI.Microsoft package. Have your API key from Google AI Studio and you're ready to go.

Chat

Microsoft.Extensions.AI provides abstractions and exchange types for working with AI services. The Google.GenAI library includes an implementation of the IChatClient interface to enable easy integration with applications that use these abstractions.

using Microsoft.Extensions.AI;
using Mscc.GenerativeAI.Microsoft;

// Chat with Gemini API.
var apiKey = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("GOOGLE_API_KEY");
var model = "gemini-2.5-flash";
var prompt = "What is AI?";

IChatClient chatClient = new GeminiChatClient(apiKey, model);

var response = await chatClient.CompleteAsync(prompt);
Console.WriteLine(response.Message);

response = await chatClient.CompleteAsync( 
    "Translate the following text into Pig Latin: I love .NET and AI"); 
Console.WriteLine(response.Message);

using Microsoft.Extensions.AI;
using Mscc.GenerativeAI.Microsoft;
using System.ComponentModel

// assuming credentials are set up in environment variables as instructed above.
IChatClient chatClient = new GeminiChatClient().AsIChatClient("gemini-2.5-flash")
    .AsBuilder()
    .UseFunctionInvocation()
    .UseOpenTelemetry()
    .Build();

ChatOptions options = new()
{
    Tools = [AIFunctionFactory.Create(([Description("The name of the person whose age is to be retrieved")] string personName) => personName switch
    {
        "Alice" => 30,
        "Bob" => 25,
        _ => 35
    }, "get_person_age", "Gets the age of the specified person");
};

await foreach (var update in chatClient.GetStreamingResponseAsync("How much older is Alice than Bob?", options))
{
    Console.Write(update);
}

Embeddings

using Microsoft.Extensions.AI;
using Mscc.GenerativeAI.Microsoft;

// Create embeddings using the appropriate model.
var apiKey = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("GOOGLE_API_KEY");
var model = "text-embedding-004";
var prompt = "What is AI?";

IEmbeddingGenerator<string,Embedding<float>> generator = 
    new GeminiEmbeddingGenerator(apiKey, model);

var embeddings = await generator.GenerateAsync([prompt]);
Console.WriteLine(string.Join(", ", embeddings[0].Vector.ToArray()));

More examples

The folders samples and tests contain more examples.

Troubleshooting

tba

Feedback

You can create issues at the https://github.com/mscraftsman/generative-ai repository.

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# Changelog (Release Notes)

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.1.0/),
and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.html).

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## 2.8.21

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- add implementation of `IImageGenerator` as `GeminiImageGenerator` (2366e37)

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- provide another example using newer Gemini models (fe2b7b8)
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- Update to stable Microsoft.Extensions.AI and update some implementation [#87](https://github.com/mscraftsman/generative-ai/pull/87) thanks to @stephentoub

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- Update Microsoft.Extensions.AI version to 9.5.0-preview.1.25262.9

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