AI docs updates - December

[gewarren]

Describe the issue or suggestion

• Add quickstart/tutorial for processing custom data based on the data ingestion sample described in https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-data-ingestion-building-blocks-preview/. It should live under the "Chat with your data" section of the TOC and be titled "Process data" or something similar.

• Add info about which providers we support in .NET.

• Perhaps replace use of CosmosDb with something simpler in this tutorial (Alex's): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/ai/tutorials/tutorial-ai-vector-search.

• Onboard .NET Agent Framework samples to Learn samples browser:

  • https://github.com/microsoft/agent-framework/tree/main/dotnet/samples
  • https://github.com/microsoft/Agent-Framework-Samples

• Add links from our landing page to new article on the aiagent-webapi template (in Microsoft.Agents.AI.ProjectTemplates package) that will be published in the Agent Framework docs.

  "You can quickly start building server-hosted agents with the Microsoft Agent Framework and ASP.NET Core using the new AI Agent Web API template.

  dotnet new install Microsoft.Agents.AI.ProjectTemplates 
  dotnet new aiagent-webapi -o MyAIAgentWebApi 
  cd MyAIAgentWebApi 
  dotnet run
  

  This creates a ASP.NET Core Web API project that hosts your agents and exposes them as standard HTTP endpoints. It includes the Microsoft Agent Framework Dev user interface, which provides a web-based test harness for validating and visualizing agents and workflows through an interactive interface."

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