* 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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Co-authored-by: Eric Zhu <ekzhu@users.noreply.github.com>
* 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
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