AIProjectClient

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Each book explains AIProjectClient in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.

Terms in this definition

• Microsoft Foundry

  Formerly called Azure AI Foundry, the Azure platform where AI models and agents are built, evaluated and run within one resource, with evaluations, guardrails and AI red teaming.

• SDK

  Software development kit: client libraries, for example the Key Vault SDK or Speech SDK, that let code use a service without calling its REST API directly.

• Foundry project endpoint

  URL in the form https://<resource>.services.ai.azure.com/api/projects/<project> that is passed when creating an AIProjectClient. It took over from the connection strings used in early previews.

• Microsoft Entra

  The umbrella brand covering Microsoft's identity and network access portfolio. Internet Access, Private Access, External ID and ID Governance all belong to it, built on top of the core directory service, Entra ID.

• LIKE

  Compares strings with a pattern that can contain the % and _ wildcards. Because it only understands character patterns, searching big volumes of text this way is much slower than using full-text search.

• DefaultAzureCredential

  Credential type in the Azure SDKs that works through several sources in turn: a developer's own sign-in on a workstation, or the managed identity through IMDS when hosted in Azure. No keys or secrets need storing.

• Microsoft Entra ID

  Cloud identity service from Microsoft, previously named Azure AD, which provides the tenant behind Microsoft 365 and Azure.

• Authentication

  Checking an identity claim made by a person, device or app, for instance by asking for a password plus an extra factor. Authorisation only happens once this step has succeeded.

Related terms

• azure-ai-projects

  Python SDK for Microsoft Foundry; its AIProjectClient opens a connection to a project, and telemetry.get_application_insights_connection_string() fetches the connection string of the Application Insights resource linked to that project.

• Foundry SDK

  Client library (azure-ai-projects) that operates on a Microsoft Foundry project via AIProjectClient, covering agents, datasets, deployments and connections. It also provides an OpenAI-compatible client for conversations, responses and evaluations.

• get_openai_client()

  A method on AIProjectClient that hands back an OpenAI client already authenticated to the project. You use it for responses.create (reading response.output_text), plus conversations, evaluations and fine-tuning.