Add Bing Grounding Resource, introduce Azure AI Agents for Lesson 6 and API

[adrianwright]

Purpose

Introduce Grounding with Bing Search in place of bing search resource with deployment restrictions. Introduce Azure AI Agent service to do the grounded search.

Update instructions, back end API, Lesson 6 and infrastructure. Made small change to StockDataPlugin because it had issues marshalling data types after Azure AI Agent was introduced.

Does this introduce a breaking change?

[ ] Yes
[X] No

Pull Request Type

What kind of change does this Pull Request introduce?

[ ] Bugfix
[X] Feature
[ ] Code style update (formatting, local variables)
[ ] Refactoring (no functional changes, no api changes)
[ ] Documentation content changes
[ ] Other... Please describe:

How to Test

Follow deployment instructions and test both lesson 6 and the back end API (locally and/or deployed with bicep)

What to Check

Verify that the following are valid

• Lessons working as intended
• Back end api working as intended locally
• Bicep deploys successfully
• Back end api working as intended when deployed

Copilot reviewed 10 out of 25 changed files in this pull request and generated no comments.

Files not reviewed (15)

• workshop/dotnet/App/backend/backend.csproj: Language not supported
• workshop/dotnet/Core.Utilities/Core.Utilities.csproj: Language not supported
• workshop/dotnet/Directory.Packages.props: Language not supported
• workshop/dotnet/Lessons/appsettings.json.example: Language not supported
• workshop/dotnet/infra/app/api.bicep: Language not supported
• workshop/dotnet/infra/core/host/container-app-upsert.bicep: Language not supported
• workshop/dotnet/infra/core/security/subscription-role.bicep: Language not supported
• docs/wksp/05-semantic-kernel-workshop/simple-ai-orchestration/create-deployable-app/azd-infra.md: Evaluated as low risk
• workshop/dotnet/Core.Utilities/Config/KernelBuilderProvider.cs: Evaluated as low risk
• workshop/dotnet/App/backend/Extensions/ServiceExtensions.cs: Evaluated as low risk
• docs/wksp/00-intro/pre-reqs.md: Evaluated as low risk
• workshop/dotnet/Lessons/Lesson6/Program.cs: Evaluated as low risk
• workshop/dotnet/Core.Utilities/Config/AISettingsProvider.cs: Evaluated as low risk
• workshop/dotnet/Solutions/Lesson6/Program.cs: Evaluated as low risk
• workshop/dotnet/Core.Utilities/Models/AppSettings.cs: Evaluated as low risk

Comments suppressed due to low confidence (2)

workshop/dotnet/App/backend/Controllers/ChatController.cs:0

• Ensure that the new Azure AI Agent integration is thoroughly tested.

N/A

workshop/dotnet/Core.Utilities/Plugins/StockDataPlugin.cs:23

• Ensure that the DateTime.Parse operation is covered by tests, including cases with invalid date formats.

var dateTime = DateTime.Parse(date);

[adrianwright]

@microsoft-github-policy-service agree company="Microsoft"

[yortch]

Looks good to me - verified and tested