Microsoft.AI.Foundry.Local FoundryLocalManager Installation Detection

[Chrissteven81]

Is there a way outside of launching a powershell script from my .net 9 application to detect if foundry local is installed. FoundryLocalManager.IsServiceRunning returns false at which point my application attempts to start. the start fails and this is handled by a try catch but it seems this is not the most graceful way to handle this. As most PC do not have foundry local installed. My installation installs foundry local however, sometimes that fails because the PC does not have winget either.

[natke]

Hi @Chrissteven81, thank you for developing with Foundry Local! We are working towards a standalone SDK, which will not require the CLI application to be installed. Watch this space! I'll move this into the Discussions area