* moves AgentId into Agent
* Renames AgentRuntime to AgentMessenger (more accurate name)
* Remove IAgentRuntime Interface
* changes constructor of Agent to take IAgentWorker instead of IAgentRuntime

* move optional base agents to separate package
* rename main sdk to Core
* reduce dependency graph
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* refactor renaming agent base

* 1st draft

* 1st draft

* format

* rename the tsts

* move IagentWorker

* 1st draft

* format

* gen-proto

* run gen-proto-samples

* format

* merge problem format

* refactor renaming agent base

* rename the files

* Update dotnet/src/Microsoft.AutoGen/Agents/Services/HostBuilderExtensions.cs

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* update the tests

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* adds a python xlang sample and aspire code to host it
* fixes message delivery on dotnet runtime

* remove abstractions dep on orleans #4153

* fixing up defaults

* fix some HelloAgent defaults

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* add subscription response

* fix send subscription response

* add register agent type response

* adding a test

* working on shaping up a test

* appsettins update for backend

* another appsettings

* fixup aspire hosting

* enable AGENT_HOST var from aspire

* add SendMessageAsync

* remove broken test

* test compiles and runs but is not (yet) correct

* subscriptions grain wireup.

* temp assert true.

* remove DI for SubscriptionGrain

* add xlang python code

* add subscription response

* rebond

* Update to .NET 9.0

* Fix Backend project SDK

* Package updates

* get RegisterAgentTypeRequest working

* fix exceptions

* add error handling for requests

* whoops

* send cloud event message type

* processing cloudevents

* trying tosend proto data - doesn't work

* trying to pack proto_data

* fix (#4238)

* pack the Message from agents_events

* format - not sure why these?

* format

* cleanup, error handling, xlang sample publishes messages that can be heard by .NET and vice versa

* format

* sdk version

* sdk vers

* net8

* back to net8

* remove netstandard2

* fix used

* remove unused

* more cleanup

* remove unneeded package

* I'm terrible at writing tests

* deserialize the cloud events and sent them as events

* comment

* cleanup

* await

* Delete dotnet/samples/Hello/Backend/Backend.csproj

unneeded change

* whoops

* merge main python back into here

* revert back to local

* revert some of the helloAgents changes.

* [.NET] Add happy path test for in-memory agent && Simplify HelloAgent example && some clean-up in extension APIs (#4227)

* add happy path test

* remove unnecessary namespace

* fix build error

* Update AgentBaseTests.cs

* revert changes

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* fix busted merge from main

* addressing review comments

* make internal

* case sensitive rename step 1

* case sensitive rename step 2

* remove!

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* add happy path test

* remove unnecessary namespace

* fix build error

* Update AgentBaseTests.cs

* revert changes

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closes #3950 closes #3702

What this is doing:

I am refactoring the services on the .NET runtime and attempting to clarify the naming and organization.
I added this doc to help capture the naming and concepts.
AgentRuntime / Worker should work similar to the python version and enables running the whole agent system in one process. For remote the system uses the versions of the services in the grpc folder.
lots of other bug fixes/threading cleanup - passing cancellation token throughout
Services update clarifies the naming and roles:

Worker: Hosts the Agents and is a client to the Gateway
Gateway:
-- RPC gateway for the other services APIs
-- Provides an RPC bridge between the workers and the Event Bus
Registry: keeps track of the agents in the system and which events they can handle
AgentState: persistent state for agents

* simplify publishing imessage contracts

use new api

complete adoption

remove unused project

more delete

more delete

* rename methods

* formatting

* Add task type that are messages to enable multi-modal tasks. (#4091)

* Add task type that are messages to enable multi-modal tasks.

* fix test

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* Wait for acknowledgment when sending message to gRPC channel

* Add CancellationToken parameters to API surface

* Clean up the Hello sample, support Aspire 9.0, & fix shutdown

* add IHandle for object type

* rename handle -> handleObject

* remove duplicate file header setting

* update

* remove AgentId

* fix format

changes to AgentBase and HostBuilderExtensions to enable leveraging handlers from composition (interfaces) vs inheritance... see HelloAgents sample for usage

closes #3928
is related to #3925

Remove unused code, refactor AgentBase and AgentWorker/Runtime to use interfaces throughout to enable future implementation of alternate runtimes and separation of the gprpc service from Agent Base (for future in-memory version). 
Also adds the missing RegisterAgentResponse methods

adopts the new Microsoft.Extensions.AI abstractions
adds a base InferenceAgent
fixes a lot of pain points in the runtime wrt startup/shutdown
fixes some uncaught exceptions in the grpc stream reading
adds an example for running the backend service in its own process
adds an example of an agent that connects to OpenAI/Ollama
adds an example of wrapping an agent app in .NET Aspire
upgrades some dependencies and removes some others
Known bugs: #3922