El Bruno

Tag: AI

🎙️🤖 Real-Time AI Conversations in .NET — Local STT, TTS, VAD and LLM

Hi 👋 What if you could build a real-time voice conversation app in .NET — speech-to-text, text-to-speech, voice activity detection, and LLM responses — all running locally on your machine? That’s exactly what ElBruno.Realtime does. 🎥 Watch the full video here Why I Built This I’ve been building local AI tools for .NET for a while — local embeddings, local TTS with… — read more

Mar 2, 2026
🎨 Text-to-Image in .NET — FLUX.2 Pro in the Foundry and Stable Diffusion on Your Machine

Hi 👋 These days Microsoft announced FLUX.2 Flex on Microsoft Foundry, I immediately thought: “I need to wrap this for .NET developers.” So I setup a SQUAD team and I did it. And then I thought: “Wait — I have a couple of Test-to-Image local pet projects, what if my SQUAD also help to polish and publish this?… — read more

Feb 26, 2026
Microsoft Agent Framework is Release Candidate! Let’s Go 🔥🤖

Hi! Big milestone these days: The Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF) just reached Release Candidate status 🎉 Official announcement here:👉 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/foundry/microsoft-agent-framework-reaches-release-candidate/ As someone who has been building apps, samples, demos, orchestration experiments and livestream content around MAF for months… this one feels GOOD. Let’s talk about this. 🤖 What is Microsoft Agent Framework? The Microsoft Agent… — read more

Feb 23, 2026
Vision Memory Agent: local image search with CLIP + Ollama + Microsoft Agent Framework

Hi! This post walks through a tiny but powerful scenario: ingest images locally, search them with natural language, and let an agent decide when to call tools. Everything runs on your machine, and it’s an simple example of how to use Microsoft Agent Framework with local embeddings. We’ll use: Repo sample: https://github.com/elbruno/elbruno.localembeddings/tree/main/samples/VisionMemoryAgentSample Why this scenario You give… — read more

Feb 20, 2026
🖼️ Local Image Embeddings in .NET — CLIP + ONNX

Hi 👋 If you’ve used ElBruno.LocalEmbeddings for text embeddings, you’re going to love the new image capabilities. I asked several friends about this, and they challenge me to give it a try, so here it is: ElBruno.LocalEmbeddings.ImageEmbeddings a library brings CLIP-based multimodal embeddings to .NET — fully local. It is powered by ONNX Runtime, and ready for image search and image RAG workflows. In… — read more

Feb 16, 2026
🧠 Building RAG in .NET with Local Embeddings — 3 Approaches, Zero Cloud Calls

Hi! 👋 One of the questions I get most often is: “Bruno, can I build a RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) app in .NET without sending my data to the cloud?” The answer is a resounding YES. 🚀 In this post, I’ll walk you through three different ways to build RAG applications using ElBruno.LocalEmbeddings — a .NET library that generates text embeddings locally using ONNX… — read more

Feb 14, 2026
Local Embeddings in .NET — The Easy Way

Hi! If you’re running local LLMs using: At some point you’ll want to experiment with RAG. And that means one thing: 👉 You need embeddings. During production, you’ll probably rely on managed services and vector databases.But during experimentation? You just want something simple. That’s why I created: 📦 ElBruno.LocalEmbeddingsNuGet: https://www.nuget.org/packages/ElBruno.LocalEmbeddingsRepo: https://github.com/elbruno/elbruno.localembeddings/ It allows you to… — read more

Feb 13, 2026
Building GitHub Copilot Agents in C# with Microsoft Agent Framework

GitHub Copilot just crossed a very interesting line. It’s no longer “just” helping you write code — it can now run as an agent, with goals, tools, and autonomy, using Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF). 🎥 Watch the full video here: In the video, I walk through three simple C# samples showing how Copilot can be… — read more

Feb 9, 2026
🤖 Never Lose Your AI Agent’s Train of Thought

Persisting Microsoft Agent Framework Sessions with ASP.NET, Redis & Blazor Have you ever built a chat app where the AI forgets what you said five seconds ago? 😅That’s the classic stateless API problem — and today we’re fixing that in .NET using the Microsoft Agent Framework (MAF + Ollama), persistent agent sessions (Redis), and a Blazor frontend so you can see… — read more

Feb 3, 2026
Trick to fix DevUI Workflow Errors in Microsoft Agent Framework

Hi! How a Missing Workflow Name Breaks DevUI (and How to Fix It) When working with Microsoft Agent Framework and DevUI, I ran into a subtle but very frustrating issue: everything compiled, but DevUI failed at runtime. No workflows visible.No clear hint in the UI.And a runtime exception that didn’t immediately point to the real… — read more

Jan 14, 2026
Fixing OllamaSharp Timeouts in C# (with a Simple Extension and just for fun 😄)

Hi! Avoid reading the blog post with this 5-min video: When working with local models in OllamaSharp, I hit a timeout while running long-running workloads like video analysis. The issue wasn’t the model, it was the default 100-second timeout coming from HttpClient. The problem By default, OllamaSharp uses an HttpClient with a fixed timeout.If your… — read more

Jan 8, 2026
Microsoft AI in 2025: My Top 60 Announcements (Chronological) 📅

⚠️ This post was curated manually based on public announcements, blog posts, and official Microsoft communications from 2025. While I carefully reviewed the content, dates, and URLs, this article was assisted by AI tooling — and, well, AI is still AI 🤖. There may be occasional inaccuracies, outdated links, or missing context. If you spot… — read more

Dec 29, 2025
You Don’t Need AI Everywhere (And That’s a Good Thing)

End-of-year reflection noteAs the year wraps up and we all start thinking about what we built, what worked, and what didn’t, I’ve been reflecting on something I’ve seen a lot lately: AI being added everywhere… sometimes without a real reason. AI is powerful. I use it daily. But that doesn’t mean it should be the… — read more

Dec 22, 2025
🎙️ No Tiene Nombre desnuda la IA y la robótica (NTN 450–454)

Buenas! En esta tanda de episodios de No Tiene Nombre, hablamos de IA agente, cómo la usamos realmente, el salto de GPT-5.2 con Disney, la fragmentación de asistentes inteligentes y hasta la historia de Roomba desde el MIT hasta su caída económica. 🔥 NTN 450 – IA Agente o Nada: Los gigantes se ponen serios… — read more

Dec 21, 2025
💭Claude in Azure, the .NET Way: elbruno.Extensions.AI.Claude v0.1.0-preview.2

elbruno.Extensions.AI.Claude just landed on NuGet with dual authentication support, polished samples, and drop-in compatibility with Microsoft.Extensions.AI. Here’s a fast tour so you can start shipping Azure+Claude powered experiences immediately. Highlights Install Once Sample 1 Default Azure Credentials Keep secrets in Azure and let DefaultAzureCredential figure out the right token. Minimal config: Sample 2 API Key Mode Need to run… — read more

Nov 21, 2025
Using Claude Models in Microsoft Foundry with Microsoft.Extensions.AI (temp fix 😏)

Hi! This post demonstrates how to use Anthropic’s Claude models deployed in Microsoft Foundry with the Microsoft.Extensions.AI (MEAI) framework. Since official SDK support for Claude models in MEAI is not yet available, this sample shows a practical approach to bridge the gap between OpenAI’s API format (used by MEAI) and Claude’s native Anthropic API format.… — read more

Nov 20, 2025
🚀 AG-UI + Agent Framework + .NET + Aspire: Web-Enabling Your Intelligent Agents (Blog + Demo + Code!)

📺 VIDEO COMING SOON — stay tuned!(I’ll embed the YouTube player here as soon as the video goes live.) Hola friends! Bruno here 🙋‍♂️ — Cloud Advocate at Microsoft, lover of .NET, AI, Blazor, and the occasional dog-walk debugging session with ACE 🐶. Today we’re diving into something very cool for .NET AI developers:👉 How… — read more

Nov 18, 2025
🚀 Supercharging .NET Apps with DevUI and the New Microsoft Agent Framework

Hi! If you’re building intelligent applications in .NET, the new Microsoft Agent Framework opens the door to agent-based architectures, message-driven reasoning, and multi-agent collaboration. But one of the most powerful pieces of the ecosystem is DevUI—a visual debugging and tracing experience to see your agents think. In my latest video, I break down how DevUI… — read more

Nov 13, 2025
🧠 Taking Multi-Model AI Orchestration Further: Azure AI Foundry Persistent Agents in .NET 9

Hi! In my previous post, I showed you how to orchestrate multiple AI agents using the Microsoft Agent Framework, connecting Azure AI Foundry (OpenAI), GitHub Models, and Ollama in a single .NET 9 application. Today, I’m taking this a step further by introducing Azure AI Foundry Persistent Agents—a powerful feature that allows you to create, manage, and… — read more

Oct 16, 2025
Multi-Model AI Agent Orchestration in .NET 9 with Microsoft Agent Framework, Azure AI Foundry, GitHub Models, and Ollama

Hi! This demo showcases how to build a multi-model AI orchestration workflow using the Microsoft Agent Framework, Microsoft.Extensions.AI, and OpenTelemetry, all running in .NET 9. The solution brings together Azure AI Foundry (OpenAI), GitHub Models, and a local Ollama instance, allowing you to connect and coordinate multiple AI models within a single C# console app.… — read more

Oct 12, 2025