autogen/docs/dotnet/index.md

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    <h1>AutoGen .NET</h1>
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    A <i>.NET</i> framework for building AI agents and applications
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        <h5 class="card-title">Core</h5>
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[![dotnet-ci](https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/actions/workflows/dotnet-build.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/actions/workflows/dotnet-build.yml)
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        <p class="card-text">An event-driven programming framework for building scalable multi-agent AI systems.</p>

- Deterministic and dynamic agentic workflows for business processes
- Research on multi-agent collaboration
- Distributed agents for multi-language applications
- integration with event-driven, cloud native applications

*Start here if you are building workflows or distributed agent systems*

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```bash
dotnet add package Microsoft.AutoGen.Contracts
dotnet add package Microsoft.AutoGen.Core

# optionally - for distributed agent systems:
dotnet add package Microsoft.AutoGen.RuntimeGateway.Grpc
dotnet add package Microsoft.AutoGen.AgentHost

# other optional packages
dotnet add package Microsoft.AutoGen.Agents
dotnet add package Microsoft.AutoGen.Extensions.Aspire
dotnet add package Microsoft.AutoGen.Extensions.MEAI
dotnet add package Microsoft.AutoGen.Extensions.SemanticKernel
```

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        <h5 class="card-title">AgentChat</h5>
        <p class="card-text">A programming framework for building conversational single and multi-agent applications. Built on Core.</p>
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