.NET: Inline const values in samples where used only once

dotnet/samples/GettingStarted/AgentProviders/Agent_With_AzureFoundryModel/Program.cs

@@ -14,9 +14,6 @@
 var apiKey = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AZURE_FOUNDRY_OPENAI_APIKEY");
 var model = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AZURE_FOUNDRY_MODEL_DEPLOYMENT") ?? "Phi-4-mini-instruct";
 
-const string JokerName = "Joker";
-const string JokerInstructions = "You are good at telling jokes.";
-
 // Since we are using the OpenAI Client SDK, we need to override the default endpoint to point to Azure Foundry.
 var clientOptions = new OpenAIClientOptions() { Endpoint = new Uri(endpoint) };
 
@@ -26,8 +23,8 @@
     : new OpenAIClient(new ApiKeyCredential(apiKey), clientOptions);
 
 AIAgent agent = client
-     .GetChatClient(model)
-     .CreateAIAgent(JokerInstructions, JokerName);
+    .GetChatClient(model)
+    .CreateAIAgent(instructions: "You are good at telling jokes.", name: "Joker");
 
 // Invoke the agent and output the text result.
 Console.WriteLine(await agent.RunAsync("Tell me a joke about a pirate."));

dotnet/samples/GettingStarted/AgentProviders/Agent_With_AzureOpenAIChatCompletion/Program.cs

@@ -10,14 +10,11 @@
 var endpoint = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT") ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT is not set.");
 var deploymentName = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AZURE_OPENAI_DEPLOYMENT_NAME") ?? "gpt-4o-mini";
 
-const string JokerName = "Joker";
-const string JokerInstructions = "You are good at telling jokes.";
-
 AIAgent agent = new AzureOpenAIClient(
     new Uri(endpoint),
     new AzureCliCredential())
      .GetChatClient(deploymentName)
-     .CreateAIAgent(JokerInstructions, JokerName);
+     .CreateAIAgent(instructions: "You are good at telling jokes.", name: "Joker");
 
 // Invoke the agent and output the text result.
 Console.WriteLine(await agent.RunAsync("Tell me a joke about a pirate."));

dotnet/samples/GettingStarted/AgentProviders/Agent_With_AzureOpenAIResponses/Program.cs

@@ -10,14 +10,11 @@
 var endpoint = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT") ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT is not set.");
 var deploymentName = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AZURE_OPENAI_DEPLOYMENT_NAME") ?? "gpt-4o-mini";
 
-const string JokerName = "Joker";
-const string JokerInstructions = "You are good at telling jokes.";
-
 AIAgent agent = new AzureOpenAIClient(
     new Uri(endpoint),
     new AzureCliCredential())
      .GetOpenAIResponseClient(deploymentName)
-     .CreateAIAgent(JokerInstructions, JokerName);
+     .CreateAIAgent(instructions: "You are good at telling jokes.", name: "Joker");
 
 // Invoke the agent and output the text result.
 Console.WriteLine(await agent.RunAsync("Tell me a joke about a pirate."));

dotnet/samples/GettingStarted/AgentProviders/Agent_With_ONNX/Program.cs

@@ -10,12 +10,9 @@
 // E.g. C:\repos\Phi-4-mini-instruct-onnx\cpu_and_mobile\cpu-int4-rtn-block-32-acc-level-4
 var modelPath = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("ONNX_MODEL_PATH") ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("ONNX_MODEL_PATH is not set.");
 
-const string JokerName = "Joker";
-const string JokerInstructions = "You are good at telling jokes.";
-
 // Get a chat client for ONNX and use it to construct an AIAgent.
 using OnnxRuntimeGenAIChatClient chatClient = new(modelPath);
-AIAgent agent = chatClient.CreateAIAgent(JokerInstructions, JokerName);
+AIAgent agent = chatClient.CreateAIAgent(instructions: "You are good at telling jokes.", name: "Joker");
 
 // Invoke the agent and output the text result.
 Console.WriteLine(await agent.RunAsync("Tell me a joke about a pirate."));

dotnet/samples/GettingStarted/AgentProviders/Agent_With_Ollama/Program.cs

@@ -9,12 +9,9 @@
 var endpoint = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("OLLAMA_ENDPOINT") ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("OLLAMA_ENDPOINT is not set.");
 var modelName = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("OLLAMA_MODEL_NAME") ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("OLLAMA_MODEL_NAME is not set.");
 
-const string JokerName = "Joker";
-const string JokerInstructions = "You are good at telling jokes.";
-
 // Get a chat client for Ollama and use it to construct an AIAgent.
 AIAgent agent = new OllamaApiClient(new Uri(endpoint), modelName)
-    .CreateAIAgent(JokerInstructions, JokerName);
+    .CreateAIAgent(instructions: "You are good at telling jokes.", name: "Joker");
 
 // Invoke the agent and output the text result.
 Console.WriteLine(await agent.RunAsync("Tell me a joke about a pirate."));

dotnet/samples/GettingStarted/AgentProviders/Agent_With_OpenAIChatCompletion/Program.cs

@@ -8,13 +8,10 @@
 var apiKey = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("OPENAI_APIKEY") ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("OPENAI_APIKEY is not set.");
 var model = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("OPENAI_MODEL") ?? "gpt-4o-mini";
 
-const string JokerName = "Joker";
-const string JokerInstructions = "You are good at telling jokes.";
-
 AIAgent agent = new OpenAIClient(
     apiKey)
      .GetChatClient(model)
-     .CreateAIAgent(JokerInstructions, JokerName);
+     .CreateAIAgent(instructions: "You are good at telling jokes.", name: "Joker");
 
 // Invoke the agent and output the text result.
 Console.WriteLine(await agent.RunAsync("Tell me a joke about a pirate."));

dotnet/samples/GettingStarted/AgentProviders/Agent_With_OpenAIResponses/Program.cs

@@ -8,13 +8,10 @@
 var apiKey = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("OPENAI_APIKEY") ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("OPENAI_APIKEY is not set.");
 var model = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("OPENAI_MODEL") ?? "gpt-4o-mini";
 
-const string JokerName = "Joker";
-const string JokerInstructions = "You are good at telling jokes.";
-
 AIAgent agent = new OpenAIClient(
     apiKey)
      .GetOpenAIResponseClient(model)
-     .CreateAIAgent(JokerInstructions, JokerName);
+     .CreateAIAgent(instructions: "You are good at telling jokes.", name: "Joker");
 
 // Invoke the agent and output the text result.
 Console.WriteLine(await agent.RunAsync("Tell me a joke about a pirate."));

dotnet/samples/GettingStarted/AgentWithOpenAI/Agent_OpenAI_Step01_Running/Program.cs

@@ -10,12 +10,9 @@
 var apiKey = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("OPENAI_API_KEY") ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("OPENAI_API_KEY is not set.");
 var model = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("OPENAI_MODEL") ?? "gpt-4o-mini";
 
-const string JokerName = "Joker";
-const string JokerInstructions = "You are good at telling jokes.";
-
 AIAgent agent = new OpenAIClient(apiKey)
     .GetChatClient(model)
-    .CreateAIAgent(JokerInstructions, JokerName);
+    .CreateAIAgent(instructions: "You are good at telling jokes.", name: "Joker");
 
 UserChatMessage chatMessage = new("Tell me a joke about a pirate.");
 

dotnet/samples/GettingStarted/Agents/Agent_Step01_Running/Program.cs

@@ -10,14 +10,11 @@
 var endpoint = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT") ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT is not set.");
 var deploymentName = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AZURE_OPENAI_DEPLOYMENT_NAME") ?? "gpt-4o-mini";
 
-const string JokerName = "Joker";
-const string JokerInstructions = "You are good at telling jokes.";
-
 AIAgent agent = new AzureOpenAIClient(
     new Uri(endpoint),
     new AzureCliCredential())
-     .GetChatClient(deploymentName)
-     .CreateAIAgent(JokerInstructions, JokerName);
+    .GetChatClient(deploymentName)
+    .CreateAIAgent(instructions: "You are good at telling jokes.", name: "Joker");
 
 // Invoke the agent and output the text result.
 Console.WriteLine(await agent.RunAsync("Tell me a joke about a pirate."));

dotnet/samples/GettingStarted/Agents/Agent_Step02_MultiturnConversation/Program.cs

@@ -10,14 +10,11 @@
 var endpoint = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT") ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT is not set.");
 var deploymentName = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AZURE_OPENAI_DEPLOYMENT_NAME") ?? "gpt-4o-mini";
 
-const string JokerName = "Joker";
-const string JokerInstructions = "You are good at telling jokes.";
-
 AIAgent agent = new AzureOpenAIClient(
     new Uri(endpoint),
     new AzureCliCredential())
-     .GetChatClient(deploymentName)
-     .CreateAIAgent(JokerInstructions, JokerName);
+    .GetChatClient(deploymentName)
+    .CreateAIAgent(instructions: "You are good at telling jokes.", name: "Joker");
 
 // Invoke the agent with a multi-turn conversation, where the context is preserved in the thread object.
 AgentThread thread = agent.GetNewThread();

dotnet/samples/GettingStarted/Agents/Agent_Step03_UsingFunctionTools/Program.cs

@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ static string GetWeather([Description("The location to get the weather for.")] s
 AIAgent agent = new AzureOpenAIClient(
     new Uri(endpoint),
     new AzureCliCredential())
-     .GetChatClient(deploymentName)
-     .CreateAIAgent(instructions: "You are a helpful assistant", tools: [AIFunctionFactory.Create(GetWeather)]);
+    .GetChatClient(deploymentName)
+    .CreateAIAgent(instructions: "You are a helpful assistant", tools: [AIFunctionFactory.Create(GetWeather)]);
 
 // Non-streaming agent interaction with function tools.
 Console.WriteLine(await agent.RunAsync("What is the weather like in Amsterdam?"));

dotnet/samples/GettingStarted/Agents/Agent_Step04_UsingFunctionToolsWithApprovals/Program.cs

@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@ static string GetWeather([Description("The location to get the weather for.")] s
 AIAgent agent = new AzureOpenAIClient(
     new Uri(endpoint),
     new AzureCliCredential())
-     .GetChatClient(deploymentName)
-     .CreateAIAgent(instructions: "You are a helpful assistant", tools: [new ApprovalRequiredAIFunction(AIFunctionFactory.Create(GetWeather))]);
+    .GetChatClient(deploymentName)
+    .CreateAIAgent(instructions: "You are a helpful assistant", tools: [new ApprovalRequiredAIFunction(AIFunctionFactory.Create(GetWeather))]);
 
 // Call the agent and check if there are any user input requests to handle.
 AgentThread thread = agent.GetNewThread();

dotnet/samples/GettingStarted/Agents/Agent_Step06_PersistedConversations/Program.cs

@@ -11,15 +11,12 @@
 var endpoint = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT") ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT is not set.");
 var deploymentName = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AZURE_OPENAI_DEPLOYMENT_NAME") ?? "gpt-4o-mini";
 
-const string JokerName = "Joker";
-const string JokerInstructions = "You are good at telling jokes.";
-
 // Create the agent
 AIAgent agent = new AzureOpenAIClient(
     new Uri(endpoint),
     new AzureCliCredential())
-     .GetChatClient(deploymentName)
-     .CreateAIAgent(JokerInstructions, JokerName);
+    .GetChatClient(deploymentName)
+    .CreateAIAgent(instructions: "You are good at telling jokes.", name: "Joker");
 
 // Start a new thread for the agent conversation.
 AgentThread thread = agent.GetNewThread();

dotnet/samples/GettingStarted/Agents/Agent_Step07_3rdPartyThreadStorage/Program.cs

@@ -17,9 +17,6 @@
 var endpoint = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT") ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT is not set.");
 var deploymentName = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AZURE_OPENAI_DEPLOYMENT_NAME") ?? "gpt-4o-mini";
 
-const string JokerName = "Joker";
-const string JokerInstructions = "You are good at telling jokes.";
-
 // Create a vector store to store the chat messages in.
 // Replace this with a vector store implementation of your choice if you want to persist the chat history to disk.
 VectorStore vectorStore = new InMemoryVectorStore();
@@ -28,19 +25,19 @@
 AIAgent agent = new AzureOpenAIClient(
     new Uri(endpoint),
     new AzureCliCredential())
-     .GetChatClient(deploymentName)
-     .CreateAIAgent(new ChatClientAgentOptions
-     {
-         Name = JokerName,
-         Instructions = JokerInstructions,
-         ChatMessageStoreFactory = ctx =>
-         {
-             // Create a new chat message store for this agent that stores the messages in a vector store.
-             // Each thread must get its own copy of the VectorChatMessageStore, since the store
-             // also contains the id that the thread is stored under.
-             return new VectorChatMessageStore(vectorStore, ctx.SerializedState, ctx.JsonSerializerOptions);
-         }
-     });
+    .GetChatClient(deploymentName)
+    .CreateAIAgent(new ChatClientAgentOptions
+    {
+        Instructions = "You are good at telling jokes.",
+        Name = "Joker",
+        ChatMessageStoreFactory = ctx =>
+        {
+            // Create a new chat message store for this agent that stores the messages in a vector store.
+            // Each thread must get its own copy of the VectorChatMessageStore, since the store
+            // also contains the id that the thread is stored under.
+            return new VectorChatMessageStore(vectorStore, ctx.SerializedState, ctx.JsonSerializerOptions);
+        }
+    });
 
 // Start a new thread for the agent conversation.
 AgentThread thread = agent.GetNewThread();

dotnet/samples/GettingStarted/Agents/Agent_Step08_Observability/Program.cs

@@ -14,9 +14,6 @@
 var deploymentName = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AZURE_OPENAI_DEPLOYMENT_NAME") ?? "gpt-4o-mini";
 var applicationInsightsConnectionString = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("APPLICATIONINSIGHTS_CONNECTION_STRING");
 
-const string JokerName = "Joker";
-const string JokerInstructions = "You are good at telling jokes.";
-
 // Create TracerProvider with console exporter
 // This will output the telemetry data to the console.
 string sourceName = Guid.NewGuid().ToString("N");
@@ -32,7 +29,7 @@
 // Create the agent, and enable OpenTelemetry instrumentation.
 AIAgent agent = new AzureOpenAIClient(new Uri(endpoint), new AzureCliCredential())
     .GetChatClient(deploymentName)
-    .CreateAIAgent(JokerInstructions, JokerName)
+    .CreateAIAgent(instructions: "You are good at telling jokes.", name: "Joker")
     .AsBuilder()
     .UseOpenTelemetry(sourceName: sourceName)
     .Build();

dotnet/samples/GettingStarted/Agents/Agent_Step09_DependencyInjection/Program.cs

@@ -18,9 +18,8 @@
 HostApplicationBuilder builder = Host.CreateApplicationBuilder(args);
 
 // Add agent options to the service collection.
-const string JokerName = "Joker";
-const string JokerInstructions = "You are good at telling jokes.";
-builder.Services.AddSingleton(new ChatClientAgentOptions(JokerInstructions, JokerName));
+builder.Services.AddSingleton(
+    new ChatClientAgentOptions(instructions: "You are good at telling jokes.", name: "Joker"));
 
 // Add a chat client to the service collection.
 builder.Services.AddKeyedChatClient("AzureOpenAI", (sp) => new AzureOpenAIClient(

dotnet/samples/GettingStarted/Agents/Agent_Step10_AsMcpTool/Program.cs

@@ -12,18 +12,14 @@
 var endpoint = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AZURE_FOUNDRY_PROJECT_ENDPOINT") ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("AZURE_FOUNDRY_PROJECT_ENDPOINT is not set.");
 var deploymentName = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AZURE_FOUNDRY_PROJECT_DEPLOYMENT_NAME") ?? "gpt-4o-mini";
 
-const string JokerName = "Joker";
-const string JokerDescription = "An agent that tells jokes.";
-const string JokerInstructions = "You are good at telling jokes, and you always start each joke with 'Aye aye, captain!'.";
-
 var persistentAgentsClient = new PersistentAgentsClient(endpoint, new AzureCliCredential());
 
 // Create a server side persistent agent
 var agentMetadata = await persistentAgentsClient.Administration.CreateAgentAsync(
     model: deploymentName,
-    name: JokerName,
-    description: JokerDescription,
-    instructions: JokerInstructions);
+    instructions: "You are good at telling jokes, and you always start each joke with 'Aye aye, captain!'.",
+    name: "Joker",
+    description: "An agent that tells jokes.");
 
 // Retrieve the server side persistent agent as an AIAgent.
 AIAgent agent = await persistentAgentsClient.GetAIAgentAsync(agentMetadata.Value.Id);

dotnet/samples/GettingStarted/Agents/Agent_Step12_AsFunctionTool/Program.cs

@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ static string GetWeather([Description("The location to get the weather for.")] s
 AIAgent agent = new AzureOpenAIClient(
     new Uri(endpoint),
     new AzureCliCredential())
-     .GetChatClient(deploymentName)
-     .CreateAIAgent(instructions: "You are a helpful assistant who responds in French.", tools: [weatherAgent.AsAIFunction()]);
+    .GetChatClient(deploymentName)
+    .CreateAIAgent(instructions: "You are a helpful assistant who responds in French.", tools: [weatherAgent.AsAIFunction()]);
 
 // Invoke the agent and output the text result.
 Console.WriteLine(await agent.RunAsync("What is the weather like in Amsterdam?"));

dotnet/samples/GettingStarted/Agents/Agent_Step15_Plugins/Program.cs

@@ -27,16 +27,13 @@
 
 IServiceProvider serviceProvider = services.BuildServiceProvider();
 
-const string AgentName = "Assistant";
-const string AgentInstructions = "You are a helpful assistant that helps people find information.";
-
 AIAgent agent = new AzureOpenAIClient(
     new Uri(endpoint),
     new AzureCliCredential())
-     .GetChatClient(deploymentName)
-     .CreateAIAgent(
-        instructions: AgentInstructions,
-        name: AgentName,
+    .GetChatClient(deploymentName)
+    .CreateAIAgent(
+        instructions: "You are a helpful assistant that helps people find information.",
+        name: "Assistant",
         tools: [.. serviceProvider.GetRequiredService<AgentPlugin>().AsAITools()],
         services: serviceProvider); // Pass the service provider to the agent so it will be available to plugin functions to resolve dependencies.
 

dotnet/samples/GettingStarted/Agents/Agent_Step16_ChatReduction/Program.cs

@@ -14,20 +14,17 @@
 var endpoint = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT") ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT is not set.");
 var deploymentName = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AZURE_OPENAI_DEPLOYMENT_NAME") ?? "gpt-4o-mini";
 
-const string JokerName = "Joker";
-const string JokerInstructions = "You are good at telling jokes.";
-
 // Construct the agent, and provide a factory to create an in-memory chat message store with a reducer that keeps only the last 2 non-system messages.
 AIAgent agent = new AzureOpenAIClient(
     new Uri(endpoint),
     new AzureCliCredential())
-     .GetChatClient(deploymentName)
-     .CreateAIAgent(new ChatClientAgentOptions
-     {
-         Name = JokerName,
-         Instructions = JokerInstructions,
-         ChatMessageStoreFactory = ctx => new InMemoryChatMessageStore(new MessageCountingChatReducer(2), ctx.SerializedState, ctx.JsonSerializerOptions)
-     });
+    .GetChatClient(deploymentName)
+    .CreateAIAgent(new ChatClientAgentOptions
+    {
+        Instructions = "You are good at telling jokes.",
+        Name = "Joker",
+        ChatMessageStoreFactory = ctx => new InMemoryChatMessageStore(new MessageCountingChatReducer(2), ctx.SerializedState, ctx.JsonSerializerOptions)
+    });
 
 AgentThread thread = agent.GetNewThread();
 

dotnet/samples/GettingStarted/ModelContextProtocol/FoundryAgent_Hosted_MCP/Program.cs

@@ -9,9 +9,6 @@
 var endpoint = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AZURE_FOUNDRY_PROJECT_ENDPOINT") ?? throw new InvalidOperationException("AZURE_FOUNDRY_PROJECT_ENDPOINT is not set.");
 var model = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("AZURE_FOUNDRY_PROJECT_MODEL_ID") ?? "gpt-4.1-mini";
 
-const string AgentName = "MicrosoftLearnAgent";
-const string AgentInstructions = "You answer questions by searching the Microsoft Learn content only.";
-
 // Get a client to create/retrieve server side agents with.
 var persistentAgentsClient = new PersistentAgentsClient(endpoint, new AzureCliCredential());
 
@@ -24,8 +21,8 @@
 // Create a server side persistent agent with the Azure.AI.Agents.Persistent SDK.
 var agentMetadata = await persistentAgentsClient.Administration.CreateAgentAsync(
     model: model,
-    name: AgentName,
-    instructions: AgentInstructions,
+    name: "MicrosoftLearnAgent",
+    instructions: "You answer questions by searching the Microsoft Learn content only.",
     tools: [mcpTool]);
 
 // Retrieve an already created server side persistent agent as an AIAgent.