Microsoft Foundry SDK Hands-On | Build a Lightweight Chat Client

Want to understand how the Microsoft Foundry SDK actually works? In this hands-on demo, we'll start with a model already deployed in Microsoft Foundry and learn how to call that model from our own Python application outside the Foundry portal. We'll keep the application intentionally simple so the focus stays on understanding the SDK and the end-to-end connection. You'll see how to: Understand where the Microsoft Foundry SDK fits Find the Foundry project endpoint and model deployment Check and install the required Python client libraries Authenticate using Azure identity Connect using AIProjectClient Get the client needed for model requests Send a request to a deployed AI model Receive the model response in Python Turn the working example into a lightweight chat client The key flow to remember: Authenticate → Connect → Request → Response This practical demo aligns with the learning objective: Create a lightweight chat client application by using the Foundry SDK. #MicrosoftFoundry #FoundrySDK #Python #GenerativeAI #AzureAI #ArtificialIntelligence #ai #ai901 #ai103