Microsoft Foundry Overview for AI Engineers

Video length: 6 min 58 sec

Microsoft Foundry SDK enables developers to work with Foundry projects programmatically, connect to project resources, and build chat applications using deployed models. 
  • Covers the SDK as a convenience layer over the Foundry REST API, with Azure AI Projects as the core package and Azure Identity for authentication. 
  • Explains the main endpoint types: Project Endpoint for SDK work, OpenAI Endpoint for OpenAI SDK calls, and Foundry Tools Endpoint for service-specific APIs. 
  • Introduces AI Project Client as the main entry point for accessing connections, deployed models, agents, and project resources. 
  • Shows how project connections store service endpoints and credentials, and how developers can list or retrieve them for diagnostics and integration. 
  • Walks through the chat app pattern: connect to the project, get an authenticated OpenAI client, select the model deployment, send messages, and receive standard chat completion responses.