Azure/azure-sdk-for-net

Features

• Cloud SDK Client Libraries - Install NuGet packages and call client methods to interact with any Azure service from .NET Core or .NET Framework applications.
• Data Storage and Databases - Connect to and query cloud databases and blob storage using object-relational mapping and data access libraries.
• Authentication and Security - Secure applications using identity providers, open standards, secret storage, and authentication frameworks.
• API Client Libraries - Use stable or preview client libraries to consume and manage cloud resources, such as uploading a storage blob.
• Code Samples and READMEs - Include a README file and ordered code samples in the samples directory, starting with a simple synchronous example.
• SDK Authentication - Authenticate, log, and interact with cloud services using the SDK client libraries for .NET.
• XML Documentation Comments - Document every public type and member using C# XML comments to generate reference documentation.
• Request Retries - Automatically retry a network request when a transient failure occurs, using configurable delay, count, and status-code rules.
• Azure Resource Management - Use management libraries to create, configure, and control cloud infrastructure and services.
• Cloud Service Integrations - Use a consistent client-object pattern to call cloud services for tasks like file storage, secret retrieval, and event processing.
• Environment Variable Configuration - Load configuration for proxies, identity, pipeline behavior, and SDK settings from well-known environment variables.
• Cloud Infrastructure Management - Use management libraries with shared core capabilities like identity, error-handling, and distributed tracing for provisioning and controlling cloud infrastructure.
• Pipeline Policy Chains - Assemble a chain of policies around an HTTP transport to standardize how client libraries interact with cloud services.
• Service Client Constructors - Pass endpoint and credential parameters into a client constructor to create a configured service client.
• OpenTelemetry Span Creation - Create a span per REST call, accept a parent context, and propagate trace context to the backend via standard headers.
• Azure Credential Configuration - Configure credentials and access rights so an application can securely connect to cloud resources.
• Connection String Authentication - Pass a connection string from the cloud portal directly into a service constructor to establish a connection.
• Bearer Token Authentication - Use a token credential to fetch an OAuth token and attach it as a Bearer authorization header on each request.
• Cloud Service Authentication - Authenticate against the cloud using a service principal or managed identity to authorize management API calls.
• Managed Identity Authentications - Use a cloud-assigned identity to access services without storing or rotating any credentials.
• OAuth Token Retrievals - Retrieve an OAuth-compatible token atomically from a credential type to authenticate service requests.
• Token Authentication - Use a token credential object to authenticate each request with OAuth tokens from Azure.Core.
• Structured Service Exceptions - Throw a structured exception when a service method returns a non-success status code, with details parsed from the response.
• HTTP Pipeline Logging - Emit structured log messages at configurable levels for requests, responses, cancellations, and errors.
• Mockable Service Clients - Mock a service client by using a protected parameterless constructor and virtual methods to create testable implementations.
• Subclient Factories - Use factory methods on a service client to create subclients that handle specific operations or resource groups.
• Conditional Resource Requests - Pass MatchConditions or RequestConditions parameters to implement optimistic concurrency using ETags.
• Client-Side Version Selection - Choose a specific service API version by passing a required version parameter when configuring the client.
• Global Configuration - Override settings from system settings, environment variables, a global configuration store, and runtime parameters in a defined order.
• Long-Running Operation Polling - Return a subclass of Operation that supports polling, waiting for completion, and retrieving the final result.
• Agent Orchestration - Build intelligent applications by orchestrating large language models, exploring model options, and managing agents through a single interface.
• Application Integration - Integrate generative AI and large language models into applications to enable chat, image generation, and search over private data.
• Lazy Enumeration Patterns - Return Pageable or AsyncPageable from methods that retrieve paginated results, enabling lazy enumeration of items.
• Serverless Workflow Builders - Run code only when triggered by events like HTTP requests or file uploads, using hundreds of connectors to integrate services.
• Service Principal Authentications - Create and configure a service principal so an on-premises application can securely access cloud resources.
• Cloud Native Application Development - Build microservices for the cloud using container orchestration, service discovery, and managed container registries.
• Cloud Resource Groups - Provision a new resource group through the management SDK to organize cloud resources.
• Azure Messaging Services - Send and receive messages between applications using queues, event hubs, and message brokers.
• Proxy Authentication Schemes - Forward HTTP requests through a configured proxy, supporting Basic, Digest, and NTLM authentication schemes.
• Cloud Virtual Networks - Create and configure a virtual network in the cloud using the management SDK for network isolation.
• Developer Credential Authentications - Test cloud access from a local workstation using a developer's own identity account.
• Azure SDK Interaction Logging - Enable logging to capture and troubleshoot communication between an application and cloud services.
• Monitoring and Observability - Capture telemetry and troubleshoot application performance using cloud monitoring tools.
• Model Graph Mocks - Mock a model graph by using a static factory to construct model instances for mocked service responses.
• Mockable Subclients - Mock a subclient by using a protected parameterless constructor and virtual methods to create testable implementations.
• Managed Web Application Hosting - Build and deploy web applications using managed app services, serverless functions, and API gateways.
• Managed Application Hosting - Deploy the full application stack onto managed services that provide built-in scalability, high availability, and security.
• Full Response Downloads - Read the entire HTTP response payload before deserialization, retrying on network failure during the download.
• Mockable Long-Running Operations - Mock a long-running operation by using a protected parameterless constructor and virtual properties to create testable subclasses.

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