In my earlier posts, I’ve demonstrated how to install Ollama using the Windows installer. However, for developers, there’s a more streamlined method to set up Ollama on your machine.

In this blog post, we’ll explore how to run DeepSeek-R1 by harnessing the capabilities of .NET Aspire alongside Ollama on your local environment.

In the previous post “Learning AI function calling in C# with Llama 3.2 SLM and Ollama running on your machine“, we wrapped our head around the concept of tool calling and implemented a C# source generator enabling our functions to be called by Llama 3.2 SLM using Ollama.

In this post, we will explore how to use Microsoft Extensions AI for tool calling in a simple .NET CLI application. We will leverage the power of Ollama and Llama 3.2 SLM to call functions and interact with the AI model using C#.