Monday
Room 1
16:20 - 17:20
(UTC+01)
Talk (60 min)
Microsoft. Extensions. VectorData - a new .NET vector database abstraction for AI apps
Vector databases and similarity search have become an indispensable part of any AI application, driving semantic search, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and other workloads.
At Build 2025, Microsoft released a new .NET abstraction to the world: Microsoft.Extensions.VectorData allows interacting with a wide array of vector databases, and includes advanced developer productivity features not yet seen in other languages.
Join one of the creators of ME.VectorData for a discussion of vector databases, the new .NET abstraction, and the ideas and considerations that went into its design.
Shay Rojansky
I'm in love with everything data in .NET - Entity Framework, System.Data, vector databases, and anything else that has you talking to some sort of database. I'm especially interested in making things go faster, and going deep into the guts of things in order to make that happen. I'm also one of the developers working on Npgsql, the PostgreSQL .NET provider..