.Net: Replace KernelBuilder with Kernel.CreateBuilder

dotnet/samples/KernelSyntaxExamples/Example05_InlineFunctionDefinition.cs

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ public static async Task RunAsync()
          *          function inline if you like.
          */
 
-        Kernel kernel = new KernelBuilder()
+        Kernel kernel = Kernel.CreateBuilder()
             .AddOpenAIChatCompletion(
                 modelId: openAIModelId,
                 apiKey: openAIApiKey)

dotnet/samples/KernelSyntaxExamples/Example06_TemplateLanguage.cs

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ public static async Task RunAsync()
             return;
         }
 
-        Kernel kernel = new KernelBuilder()
+        Kernel kernel = Kernel.CreateBuilder()
             .AddOpenAIChatCompletion(
                 modelId: openAIModelId,
                 apiKey: openAIApiKey)

dotnet/samples/KernelSyntaxExamples/Example07_BingAndGooglePlugins.cs

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ public static async Task RunAsync()
             return;
         }
 
-        Kernel kernel = new KernelBuilder()
+        Kernel kernel = Kernel.CreateBuilder()
             .AddOpenAIChatCompletion(
                 modelId: openAIModelId,
                 apiKey: openAIApiKey)

dotnet/samples/KernelSyntaxExamples/Example08_RetryHandler.cs

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ public static class Example08_RetryHandler
     public static async Task RunAsync()
     {
         // Create a Kernel with the HttpClient
-        KernelBuilder builder = new();
+        IKernelBuilder builder = Kernel.CreateBuilder();
         builder.Services.AddLogging(c => c.AddConsole().SetMinimumLevel(LogLevel.Information));
         builder.Services.ConfigureHttpClientDefaults(c =>
         {

dotnet/samples/KernelSyntaxExamples/Example09_FunctionTypes.cs

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ public static async Task RunAsync()
     {
         Console.WriteLine("======== Method Function types ========");
 
-        var kernel = new KernelBuilder()
+        var kernel = Kernel.CreateBuilder()
             .AddOpenAIChatCompletion(TestConfiguration.OpenAI.ChatModelId, TestConfiguration.OpenAI.ApiKey)
             .Build();
 

dotnet/samples/KernelSyntaxExamples/Example10_DescribeAllPluginsAndFunctions.cs

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ public static Task RunAsync()
     {
         Console.WriteLine("======== Describe all plugins and functions ========");
 
-        var kernel = new KernelBuilder()
+        var kernel = Kernel.CreateBuilder()
             .AddOpenAIChatCompletion(
                 modelId: TestConfiguration.OpenAI.ChatModelId,
                 apiKey: TestConfiguration.OpenAI.ApiKey)

dotnet/samples/KernelSyntaxExamples/Example13_ConversationSummaryPlugin.cs

@@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ private static async Task GetConversationTopicsAsync()
 
     private static Kernel InitializeKernel()
     {
-        Kernel kernel = new KernelBuilder()
+        Kernel kernel = Kernel.CreateBuilder()
             .AddAzureOpenAIChatCompletion(
                 TestConfiguration.AzureOpenAI.ChatDeploymentName,
                 TestConfiguration.AzureOpenAI.ChatModelId,

dotnet/samples/KernelSyntaxExamples/Example15_TextMemoryPlugin.cs

@@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ private static IMemoryStore CreateSampleKustoMemoryStore()
 
     private static async Task RunWithStoreAsync(IMemoryStore memoryStore, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
     {
-        var kernel = new KernelBuilder()
+        var kernel = Kernel.CreateBuilder()
             .AddOpenAIChatCompletion(TestConfiguration.OpenAI.ChatModelId, TestConfiguration.OpenAI.ApiKey)
             .AddOpenAITextEmbeddingGeneration(TestConfiguration.OpenAI.EmbeddingModelId, TestConfiguration.OpenAI.ApiKey)
             .Build();

dotnet/samples/KernelSyntaxExamples/Example16_CustomLLM.cs

@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ private static async Task CustomTextGenerationWithSKFunctionAsync()
     {
         Console.WriteLine("======== Custom LLM - Text Completion - SKFunction ========");
 
-        KernelBuilder builder = new();
+        IKernelBuilder builder = Kernel.CreateBuilder();
         builder.Services.AddSingleton(ConsoleLogger.LoggerFactory);
         // Add your text generation service as a singleton instance
         builder.Services.AddKeyedSingleton<ITextGenerationService>("myService1", new MyTextGenerationService());

dotnet/samples/KernelSyntaxExamples/Example18_DallE.cs

@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ private static async Task OpenAIDallEAsync()
     {
         Console.WriteLine("======== OpenAI Dall-E 2 Text To Image ========");
 
-        Kernel kernel = new KernelBuilder()
+        Kernel kernel = Kernel.CreateBuilder()
             // Add your text to image service
             .AddOpenAITextToImage(TestConfiguration.OpenAI.ApiKey)
             // Add your chat completion service 
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ public static async Task AzureOpenAIDallEAsync()
     {
         Console.WriteLine("========Azure OpenAI Dall-E 2 Text To Image ========");
 
-        Kernel kernel = new KernelBuilder()
+        Kernel kernel = Kernel.CreateBuilder()
             // Add your text to image service
             .AddAzureOpenAITextToImage(TestConfiguration.AzureOpenAI.Endpoint, TestConfiguration.AzureOpenAI.ImageModelId, TestConfiguration.AzureOpenAI.ApiKey)
             // Add your chat completion service

dotnet/samples/KernelSyntaxExamples/Example20_HuggingFace.cs

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ private static async Task RunInferenceApiExampleAsync()
     {
         Console.WriteLine("\n======== HuggingFace Inference API example ========\n");
 
-        Kernel kernel = new KernelBuilder()
+        Kernel kernel = Kernel.CreateBuilder()
             .AddHuggingFaceTextGeneration(
                 model: TestConfiguration.HuggingFace.ModelId,
                 apiKey: TestConfiguration.HuggingFace.ApiKey)
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ private static async Task RunLlamaExampleAsync()
         // HuggingFace local HTTP server endpoint
         const string Endpoint = "http://localhost:5000/completions";
 
-        Kernel kernel = new KernelBuilder()
+        Kernel kernel = Kernel.CreateBuilder()
             .AddHuggingFaceTextGeneration(
                 model: Model,
                 endpoint: Endpoint,

dotnet/samples/KernelSyntaxExamples/Example26_AADAuth.cs

@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ public static async Task RunAsync()
             ExcludeAzurePowerShellCredential = true
         };
 
-        Kernel kernel = new KernelBuilder()
+        Kernel kernel = Kernel.CreateBuilder()
             // Add Azure OpenAI chat completion service using DefaultAzureCredential AAD auth
             .AddAzureOpenAIChatCompletion(
                 TestConfiguration.AzureOpenAI.ChatDeploymentName,

dotnet/samples/KernelSyntaxExamples/Example27_PromptFunctionsUsingChatGPT.cs

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ public static async Task RunAsync()
     {
         Console.WriteLine("======== Using Chat GPT model for text generation ========");
 
-        Kernel kernel = new KernelBuilder()
+        Kernel kernel = Kernel.CreateBuilder()
             .AddAzureOpenAIChatCompletion(TestConfiguration.AzureOpenAI.ChatDeploymentName, TestConfiguration.AzureOpenAI.ChatModelId, TestConfiguration.AzureOpenAI.Endpoint, TestConfiguration.AzureOpenAI.ApiKey)
             .Build();
 

dotnet/samples/KernelSyntaxExamples/Example30_ChatWithPrompts.cs

@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ public static async Task RunAsync()
         var selectedText = EmbeddedResource.Read("30-user-context.txt");
         var userPromptTemplate = EmbeddedResource.Read("30-user-prompt.txt");
 
-        Kernel kernel = new KernelBuilder()
+        Kernel kernel = Kernel.CreateBuilder()
             .AddOpenAIChatCompletion(TestConfiguration.OpenAI.ChatModelId, TestConfiguration.OpenAI.ApiKey, serviceId: "chat")
             .Build();
 

dotnet/samples/KernelSyntaxExamples/Example41_HttpClientUsage.cs

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ public static Task RunAsync()
     /// </summary>
     private static void UseDefaultHttpClient()
     {
-        var kernel = new KernelBuilder()
+        var kernel = Kernel.CreateBuilder()
             .AddOpenAIChatCompletion(
                 modelId: TestConfiguration.OpenAI.ChatModelId,
                 apiKey: TestConfiguration.OpenAI.ApiKey) // If you need to use the default HttpClient from the SK SDK, simply omit the argument for the httpMessageInvoker parameter.
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ private static void UseCustomHttpClient()
         using var httpClient = new HttpClient();
 
         // If you need to use a custom HttpClient, simply pass it as an argument for the httpClient parameter.
-        var kernel = new KernelBuilder()
+        var kernel = Kernel.CreateBuilder()
             .AddOpenAIChatCompletion(
                 modelId: TestConfiguration.OpenAI.ModelId,
                 apiKey: TestConfiguration.OpenAI.ApiKey,
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ private static void UseBasicRegistrationWithHttpClientFactory()
         {
             var factory = sp.GetRequiredService<IHttpClientFactory>();
 
-            return new KernelBuilder()
+            return Kernel.CreateBuilder()
                 .AddOpenAIChatCompletion(
                     modelId: TestConfiguration.OpenAI.ChatModelId,
                     apiKey: TestConfiguration.OpenAI.ApiKey,
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ private static void UseNamedRegistrationWitHttpClientFactory()
         {
             var factory = sp.GetRequiredService<IHttpClientFactory>();
 
-            return new KernelBuilder()
+            return Kernel.CreateBuilder()
                 .AddOpenAIChatCompletion(
                     modelId: TestConfiguration.OpenAI.ChatModelId,
                     apiKey: TestConfiguration.OpenAI.ApiKey,

dotnet/samples/KernelSyntaxExamples/Example42_KernelBuilder.cs

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 // ==========================================================================================================
 // The easier way to instantiate the Semantic Kernel is to use KernelBuilder.
-// You can access the builder using new KernelBuilder().
+// You can access the builder using Kernel.CreateBuilder().
 
 #pragma warning disable CA1852
 
@@ -26,26 +26,26 @@ public static Task RunAsync()
 
         // KernelBuilder provides a simple way to configure a Kernel. This constructs a kernel
         // with logging and an Azure OpenAI chat completion service configured.
-        Kernel kernel1 = new KernelBuilder()
+        Kernel kernel1 = Kernel.CreateBuilder()
             .AddAzureOpenAIChatCompletion(azureOpenAIChatDeploymentName, azureOpenAIChatModelId, azureOpenAIEndpoint, azureOpenAIKey)
             .Build();
 
         // For greater flexibility and to incorporate arbitrary services, KernelBuilder.Services
         // provides direct access to an underlying IServiceCollection.
-        KernelBuilder builder = new();
+        IKernelBuilder builder = Kernel.CreateBuilder();
         builder.Services.AddLogging(c => c.AddConsole().SetMinimumLevel(LogLevel.Information))
                         .AddHttpClient()
                         .AddAzureOpenAIChatCompletion(azureOpenAIChatDeploymentName, azureOpenAIChatModelId, azureOpenAIEndpoint, azureOpenAIKey);
         Kernel kernel2 = builder.Build();
 
         // Plugins may also be configured via the corresponding Plugins property.
-        builder = new KernelBuilder();
+        builder = Kernel.CreateBuilder();
         builder.Plugins.AddFromType<HttpPlugin>();
         Kernel kernel3 = builder.Build();
 
         // Every call to KernelBuilder.Build creates a new Kernel instance, with a new service provider
         // and a new plugin collection.
-        builder = new KernelBuilder();
+        builder = Kernel.CreateBuilder();
         Debug.Assert(!ReferenceEquals(builder.Build(), builder.Build()));
 
         // KernelBuilder provides a convenient API for creating Kernel instances. However, it is just a

dotnet/samples/KernelSyntaxExamples/Example43_GetModelResult.cs

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ public static async Task RunAsync()
     {
         Console.WriteLine("======== Inline Function Definition + Result ========");
 
-        Kernel kernel = new KernelBuilder()
+        Kernel kernel = Kernel.CreateBuilder()
             .AddOpenAIChatCompletion(
                 modelId: TestConfiguration.OpenAI.ChatModelId,
                 apiKey: TestConfiguration.OpenAI.ApiKey)
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ public static async Task RunAsync()
         Console.WriteLine();
 
         // Getting the error details
-        kernel = new KernelBuilder()
+        kernel = Kernel.CreateBuilder()
             .AddOpenAIChatCompletion(TestConfiguration.OpenAI.ChatModelId, "Invalid Key")
             .Build();
         var errorFunction = kernel.CreateFunctionFromPrompt(FunctionDefinition);

dotnet/samples/KernelSyntaxExamples/Example48_GroundednessChecks.cs

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ public static async Task RunAsync()
     public static async Task GroundednessCheckingAsync()
     {
         Console.WriteLine("\n======== Groundedness Checks ========");
-        var kernel = new KernelBuilder()
+        var kernel = Kernel.CreateBuilder()
             .AddAzureOpenAIChatCompletion(
                 TestConfiguration.AzureOpenAI.ChatDeploymentName,
                 TestConfiguration.AzureOpenAI.ChatModelId,
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ which are not grounded in the original.
 
         Console.WriteLine("\n======== Planning - Groundedness Checks ========");
 
-        var kernel = new KernelBuilder()
+        var kernel = Kernel.CreateBuilder()
             .AddAzureOpenAIChatCompletion(
                 TestConfiguration.AzureOpenAI.ChatDeploymentName,
                 TestConfiguration.AzureOpenAI.ChatModelId,

dotnet/samples/KernelSyntaxExamples/Example52_ApimAuth.cs

@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ public static async Task RunAsync()
         };
         var openAIClient = new OpenAIClient(apimUri, new BearerTokenCredential(accessToken), clientOptions);
 
-        KernelBuilder builder = new();
+        IKernelBuilder builder = Kernel.CreateBuilder();
         builder.Services.AddLogging(c => c.SetMinimumLevel(LogLevel.Warning).AddConsole());
         builder.AddAzureOpenAIChatCompletion(TestConfiguration.AzureOpenAI.ChatDeploymentName, TestConfiguration.AzureOpenAI.ChatModelId, openAIClient);
         Kernel kernel = builder.Build();

dotnet/samples/KernelSyntaxExamples/Example54_AzureChatCompletionWithData.cs

@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ private static async Task ExampleWithKernelAsync()
 
         var completionWithDataConfig = GetCompletionWithDataConfig();
 
-        Kernel kernel = new KernelBuilder()
+        Kernel kernel = Kernel.CreateBuilder()
             .AddAzureOpenAIChatCompletion(config: completionWithDataConfig)
             .Build();
 

dotnet/samples/KernelSyntaxExamples/Example56_TemplateMethodFunctionsWithMultipleArguments.cs

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ public static async Task RunAsync()
             return;
         }
 
-        KernelBuilder builder = new();
+        IKernelBuilder builder = Kernel.CreateBuilder();
         builder.Services.AddLogging(c => c.AddConsole());
         builder.AddAzureOpenAIChatCompletion(
             deploymentName: deploymentName,

dotnet/samples/KernelSyntaxExamples/Example57_KernelHooks.cs

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ private static async Task GetUsageAsync()
     {
         Console.WriteLine("\n======== Get Usage Data ========\n");
 
-        Kernel kernel = new KernelBuilder()
+        Kernel kernel = Kernel.CreateBuilder()
             .AddOpenAIChatCompletion(
                 modelId: s_openAIModelId!,
                 apiKey: s_openAIApiKey!)
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ private static async Task GetRenderedPromptAsync()
     {
         Console.WriteLine("\n======== Get Rendered Prompt ========\n");
 
-        Kernel kernel = new KernelBuilder()
+        Kernel kernel = Kernel.CreateBuilder()
             .AddOpenAIChatCompletion(
                 modelId: s_openAIModelId!,
                 apiKey: s_openAIApiKey!)
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ private static async Task ChangingResultAsync()
     {
         Console.WriteLine("\n======== Changing/Filtering Function Result ========\n");
 
-        Kernel kernel = new KernelBuilder()
+        Kernel kernel = Kernel.CreateBuilder()
             .AddOpenAIChatCompletion(
                modelId: s_openAIModelId!,
                apiKey: s_openAIApiKey!)
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ private static async Task BeforeInvokeCancellationAsync()
     {
         Console.WriteLine("\n======== Cancelling Pipeline Execution - Invoking event ========\n");
 
-        Kernel kernel = new KernelBuilder()
+        Kernel kernel = Kernel.CreateBuilder()
             .AddOpenAIChatCompletion(
                modelId: s_openAIModelId!,
                apiKey: s_openAIApiKey!)
@@ -195,7 +195,7 @@ private static async Task AfterInvokeCancellationAsync()
     {
         Console.WriteLine("\n======== Cancelling Pipeline Execution - Invoked event ========\n");
 
-        Kernel kernel = new KernelBuilder()
+        Kernel kernel = Kernel.CreateBuilder()
             .AddOpenAIChatCompletion(
                modelId: s_openAIModelId!,
                apiKey: s_openAIApiKey!)

dotnet/samples/KernelSyntaxExamples/Example58_ConfigureExecutionSettings.cs

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ public static async Task RunAsync()
             return;
         }
 
-        Kernel kernel = new KernelBuilder()
+        Kernel kernel = Kernel.CreateBuilder()
             .AddAzureOpenAIChatCompletion(
                 deploymentName: chatDeploymentName,
                 modelId: chatModelId,

dotnet/samples/KernelSyntaxExamples/Example59_OpenAIFunctionCalling.cs

@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ public static class Example59_OpenAIFunctionCalling
     public static async Task RunAsync()
     {
         // Create kernel with chat completions service and plugins
-        KernelBuilder builder = new();
+        IKernelBuilder builder = Kernel.CreateBuilder();
         builder.Plugins.AddFromType<TimePlugin>();
         builder.Plugins.AddFromType<WidgetPlugin>();
         builder.AddOpenAIChatCompletion(TestConfiguration.OpenAI.ChatModelId, TestConfiguration.OpenAI.ApiKey);

dotnet/samples/KernelSyntaxExamples/Example61_MultipleLLMs.cs

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ public static async Task RunAsync()
             return;
         }
 
-        Kernel kernel = new KernelBuilder()
+        Kernel kernel = Kernel.CreateBuilder()
             .AddAzureOpenAIChatCompletion(
                 deploymentName: azureDeploymentName,
                 endpoint: azureEndpoint,

dotnet/samples/KernelSyntaxExamples/Example62_CustomAIServiceSelector.cs

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ public static async Task RunAsync()
         }
 
         // Build a kernel with multiple chat completion services
-        var builder = new KernelBuilder()
+        var builder = Kernel.CreateBuilder()
             .AddAzureOpenAIChatCompletion(
                 deploymentName: azureDeploymentName,
                 endpoint: azureEndpoint,

dotnet/samples/KernelSyntaxExamples/Example63_ChatCompletionPrompts.cs

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ public static async Task RunAsync()
             <message role=""system"">Respond with JSON.</message>
         ";
 
-        var kernel = new KernelBuilder()
+        var kernel = Kernel.CreateBuilder()
             .AddOpenAIChatCompletion(
                 modelId: TestConfiguration.OpenAI.ChatModelId,
                 apiKey: TestConfiguration.OpenAI.ApiKey)

dotnet/samples/KernelSyntaxExamples/Example63_FlowOrchestrator.cs

@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ private static FlowOrchestratorConfig GetOrchestratorConfig()
 
     private static KernelBuilder GetKernelBuilder(ILoggerFactory loggerFactory)
     {
-        var builder = new KernelBuilder();
+        var builder = Kernel.CreateBuilder();
 
         return builder
             .WithAzureOpenAIChatCompletion(

dotnet/samples/KernelSyntaxExamples/Example64_MultiplePromptTemplates.cs

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ public static async Task RunAsync()
             return;
         }
 
-        Kernel kernel = new KernelBuilder()
+        Kernel kernel = Kernel.CreateBuilder()
             .AddAzureOpenAIChatCompletion(
                 deploymentName: chatDeploymentName,
                 modelId: chatModelId,

dotnet/samples/KernelSyntaxExamples/Example65_HandlebarsPlanner.cs

@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ private static async Task RunSampleAsync(string goal, bool shouldPrintPrompt = f
             return;
         }
 
-        var kernel = new KernelBuilder()
+        var kernel = Kernel.CreateBuilder()
             .AddAzureOpenAIChatCompletion(
                 deploymentName: chatDeploymentName,
                 modelId: chatModelId,