I recently presented “Building AI Agents with the Microsoft Agent Framework” at the Nashua Cloud .NET User Group, where we explored how AI systems are evolving from simple prompt-response interactions into fully agentic architectures. The session focused on building intelligent agents with memory, tools, orchestration, and multi-agent collaboration using the Microsoft Agent Framework, which brings together capabilities from AutoGen and Semantic Kernel to support enterprise-grade, model-agnostic AI solutions.
The talk generated high audience engagement and prompted questions on single-agent vs. multi-agent design, agent-to-agent (A2A) communication, safety and governance, cost control, and real-world deployment with Azure AI Foundry. A live demo showed how to create and run agents with tools and memory, reinforcing practical patterns for building scalable, production-ready AI systems on Microsoft’s AI platform.
Thank you to everyone who joined, asked thoughtful questions, and contributed to a great discussion.
The Recording and sample codes are available here:
Watch the session:https://youtu.be/vmsiNAkA_08
Presentation: https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/building-agents-in-microsoft-agent-framework-pptx/284681035
Sample Code: https://github.com/nhcloud/agentframework-workshop
If you missed the session, join us at the next Nashua Cloud .NET User Group (NashuaUG) meetup to continue exploring practical, real-world AI engineering.