Setup & Installation
npx skills add https://github.com/microsoft/skills --skill azure-ai-openai-dotnet
https://github.com/microsoft/skills/tree/main/.github/plugins/azure-sdk-dotnet/skills/azure-ai-openai-dotnet
View on GitHubWhat This Skill Does
Azure.AI.OpenAI is the official .NET client library for Azure OpenAI Service. It provides access to GPT-4, embeddings, DALL-E, and Whisper through a typed C# API. Supports both Azure-hosted deployments and direct OpenAI compatibility.
Using this SDK instead of raw HTTP calls gives you typed request/response models, built-in streaming support, and DefaultAzureCredential integration, cutting out manual auth and JSON parsing boilerplate.
When to use it
- Sending chat completions to a GPT-4o deployment from a C# backend
- Generating text embeddings for a vector search index in .NET
- Transcribing audio files using Whisper via an Azure-managed endpoint
- Calling DALL-E 3 to generate images from within an ASP.NET application
- Wiring up function calling so a .NET service can invoke local methods from model responses