Building AI Applications with Claude, .NET Core & ReactTraining in Amman, Jordan & the GCC

Module 1: Introduction to Claude for Developers

• Claude ecosystem and developer use cases

• Claude models and capabilities

• Claude API architecture

• API keys and authentication

• Messages API

• Requests and responses

• Tokens and context

• System prompts

• Conversation management

Module 2: Claude API with .NET

• Setting up an ASP.NET Core project

• Calling Claude from C#

• HTTP clients and API integration

• Configuration and secrets

• Dependency injection

• Error handling

• Async API calls

• Streaming Claude responses

Module 3: Prompt Engineering for Developers

• System vs. user prompts

• Instruction design

• Few-shot prompting

• Context management

• Structured prompting

• Prompt templates

• Controlling Claude's output

• Common prompting mistakes

• Hands-on: Build an ASP.NET Core Claude Chat API

Module 4: Building AI Features with Claude

• AI-powered text generation

• Summarization

• Classification

• Extraction

• Content transformation

• JSON and structured responses

• Schema-based outputs

• Validation of AI responses

Module 5: Tool Use / Function Calling

• Understanding tool calling: Claude requests a tool through a structured tool_use response, and your application executes it and returns the result

• Defining tools

• Tool schemas

• Tool parameters

• Executing tools in C#

• Returning tool_result

• Multiple tool calls

• Tool errors

• Tool validation

• Controlling tool selection

Module 6: Claude + Databases

• EF Core integration

• SQL Server

• AI database queries

• Creating safe database tools

• Read vs. write operations

• Validation and authorization

• Preventing dangerous AI-generated operations

• Hands-on: Build an AI Customer Service API connected to SQL Server

Module 7: Building a Claude UI with React

• React architecture

• Calling ASP.NET Core APIs

• Chat interface

• Conversation history

• Streaming responses

• Loading states

• Error handling

• Markdown rendering

• Code syntax highlighting

Module 8: Advanced AI UX

• Streaming AI responses

• Tool execution indicators

• Function/tool status

• File upload interface

• Conversation management

• Regenerate responses

• Context controls

• AI response feedback

Module 9: Building AI Assistants

• Hands-on: Create a React AI assistant interface connected to the ASP.NET Core Claude API

Module 10: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

• What is RAG?

• Embeddings and semantic search

• Document ingestion

• Chunking

• Metadata

• Vector databases

• Retrieval pipeline

• Grounding Claude responses

• Citations and source references

Module 11: MCP — Model Context Protocol

• MCP concepts

• MCP architecture

• MCP clients and servers

• Resources

• Prompts

• Tools

• Connecting Claude to external systems

• Building an MCP server

• Consuming MCP from applications

Module 12: Building AI Agents

• AI agent architecture

• Agent vs. chatbot

• Planning and execution

• Tool selection

• Agent loops: the application, not the model, executes client-side tools and controls the loop

• State management

• Memory

• Multi-step tasks

• Error recovery

• Human approval

Module 13: Production Claude Applications

• Security

• API key management

• Environment configuration

• Authentication and authorization

• Rate limiting

• Token management

• Cost management

• Logging

• Monitoring

• Error handling

• Retry strategies

• Prompt injection

• Data privacy

• Guardrails

Module 14: AI Application Testing

• Testing prompts

• Testing tool calls

• Testing agent workflows

• Test datasets

• Evaluating AI responses

• Hallucination testing

• Regression testing

• Measuring response quality

Module 15: Deployment

• ASP.NET Core deployment

• React deployment

• Azure App Service

• Environment variables

• Azure SQL

• Application Insights

• Production configuration

Module 16: Capstone — AI Business Operations Assistant

• Participants build a complete application: React + ASP.NET Core + Claude + SQL Server + MCP