.NET AI Community Standup: Foundry Local for .NET Devs 🚀
Featuring: Bruno Capuano (https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/advocates/bruno-capuano), Maanav Dalal (https://www.linkedin.com/in/maanavdalal/) #dotnet #AI #LocalAI #Foundry
Running AI locally is a real and cool option for modern .NET developers. In this session, we’ll explore Foundry Local and how C# developers can use it to run AI models directly on their machines, without cloud dependencies. We’ll talk architecture, local-first AI scenarios, and how this fits into modern .NET and AI workflows—perfect for devs who want speed, privacy, and full control over their AI stack.

Featuring: Bruno Capuano (https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/advocates/bruno-capuano), Maanav Dalal (https://www.linkedin.com/in/maanavdalal/) #dotnet #AI #LocalAI #Foundry
Running AI locally is a real and cool option for modern .NET developers. In this session, we’ll explore Foundry Local and how C# developers can use it to run AI models directly on their machines, without cloud dependencies. We’ll talk architecture, local-first AI scenarios, and how this fits into modern .NET and AI workflows—perfect for devs who want speed, privacy, and full control over their AI stack.
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Featuring: Jiri Cincura, Shay Rojansky, Adam Sitnik #data #ingestion #documents #parsing #vectors #embeddings
Microsoft.Extensions.DataIngestion is new addition into Microsoft.Extensions collection and this one touches databases and AI. Exciting. Adam Sitnik, who worked on implementation, tells us what's what and maybe some behind the scenes.

Featuring: Leslie Richardson
Join members of the Visual Studio team to talk about what's new in the Visual Studio 2026 February Release.




