The abstractions library allows developers and library authors to perform CRUD operations and searches on vector stores. Credit: foundry Microsoft has introduced its Microsoft.Extensions.VectorData.Abstractions library, now in preview. The library provides abstractions to help integrate vector stores into .NET applications and libraries. The vector data abstractions library, introduced October 29, provides library authors and developers with the ability to perform create-read-update-delete (CRUD) operations and use vector and text search on vector stores. Vector databases are important for search tasks and grounding AI responses, Microsoft said. These databases are built to store, index, and manage data represented as embedding factors. As a result, the indexing algorithms used by vector databases are optimized to retrieve data that can be used downstream in applications. Microsoft.Extensions.VectorData offers a set of core .NET libraries developed in collaboration with the Microsoft Semantic Kernel team and the broader .NET ecosystem. These libraries provide a unified layer of C# abstractions for interacting with vector stores, Microsoft said. Developers can get started with Microsoft.Extensions.VectorData abstractions by using Semantic Kernel vector store connectors Generative AIMicrosoft .NETSoftware Development