SDK

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Terms in this definition

• Access policies

  Older permission model for Key Vault, now superseded by the Azure RBAC model.

• Speech SDK

  The Azure Speech client library, installed in Python as azure-cognitiveservices-speech and imported as speechsdk, providing SpeechSynthesizer, SpeechRecognizer, SpeechConfig and classes for audio configuration.

• REST

  Short for representational state transfer, the style of HTTP API that Azure services expose.

• API

  Short for application programming interface: a contract that client code calls programmatically, for example a web API secured with tokens or the Files, Images or Responses APIs.

Related terms

• AIProjectClient

  Starting object of the Microsoft Foundry SDK, constructed from the project endpoint plus a Microsoft Entra credential like DefaultAzureCredential. Because only Entra ID authentication is supported, no project key or SAS exists.

• AnalyzeTextOptions

  Request class in the Content Safety SDK carrying the text, categories, blocklist names and output type; AnalyzeText accepts it.

• 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.

• azure-core-tracing-opentelemetry

  Python package connecting Azure SDK calls to OpenTelemetry; for tracing agents on the client side it is installed together with opentelemetry-sdk and azure-ai-projects.

• Azure Machine Learning SDK v2

  Python SDK currently used with Azure Machine Learning, centred on the MLClient class. It has no logging API, so MLflow is used to log metrics.

• Binding

  A declarative way to bring data into a function as an input or to write results out as an output. None are required: the code is always free to talk to the target service by using an SDK client from Azure.

• BingGroundingToolDefinition

  In the classic C# agents SDK, the tool definition you create from a Bing connection ID; supply it in the tools list of CreateAgentAsync rather than through ToolResources.

• BlocklistClient

  Client in the Content Safety SDK for managing text blocklists: creating, listing and deleting them, and adding or removing items (add_or_update_blocklist_items, remove_blocklist_items with at most 100 per call, delete_text_blocklist).