Introducing AzureSoraSDK – C# SDK for Azure OpenAI Sora Video Generation

[DrHazemAli]

Introduction

I’m excited to share the first release of AzureSoraSDK, a fully-featured .NET 6+ SDK that makes it incredibly easy to generate AI-driven videos using Azure’s OpenAI Sora model—and even enhance your prompts on the fly.

This is a community-driven SDK built to empower .NET developers with streamlined access to Azure Sora’s powerful video generation capabilities. It features built-in prompt enhancement and a clean, extensible architecture to help you create more compelling, higher-quality content programmatically.

The SDK is open-source and publicly available on https://github.com/DrHazemAli/AzureSoraSDK

Features and Screenshots

✅ AI-Powered Video Generation: Easily create high-quality videos using the Azure OpenAI Sora model.

🔄 Prompt Enhancer: Built-in tool to dynamically optimize and upgrade user prompts for better results.

⚙️ Asynchronous Processing: Full async/await support for non-blocking video generation.

📦 NuGet Package Ready: Install using dotnet add package AzureSoraSDK.

💡 Developer-Friendly API: Designed with clean interfaces and strongly-typed models.

🚀 Real-World Examples: Includes working demo apps to help you get started in seconds.

🧪 Tested & Documented: Unit-tested with complete XML documentation for easy onboarding.

Technical Details

Language: C# (.NET 6+)

Frameworks: ASP.NET Core, HttpClientFactory

Libraries: Newtonsoft.Json, FluentValidation, System.Text.Json

Hosting Compatibility: Console Apps, Azure Functions, Web APIs

Challenges and Solutions

⚠️ Challenge: No official C# SDK existed for Azure Sora.

• 💡 Solution: Developed a full SDK from scratch, made open-source, and published to NuGet for public use.

⚠️ Challenge: Supporting dynamic prompt generation and refinement.

• 💡 Solution: Built PromptBuilder, a flexible utility to programmatically enhance and clean prompts for better Sora output.

⚠️ Challenge: Long video generation times required thoughtful API design.

• 💡 Solution: Introduced async operations with retry policies and progress tracking for robustness.

⚠️ Challenge: Ensuring SDK works across different environments.

• 💡 Solution: Modularized architecture with portable libraries for use in Azure Functions, ASP.NET, or console apps.

[amynic]

Thanks for sharing @DrHazemAli - adding some of our .NET developer relations team for visibility cc @elbruno @codemillmatt

[DrHazemAli]

Thanks so much @amynic!
Really appreciate your support on this, happy to contribute and looking forward to hearing feedback from the .NET team!

[elbruno]

Amazing work @DrHazemAli , love it!

We have a SORA video Generating Sample, using a REST call here (https://github.com/microsoft/Generative-AI-for-beginners-dotnet/blob/main/03-CoreGenerativeAITechniques/src/VideoGeneration-AzureSora-01/Program.cs).

Feel free to submit a PR with a console sample, like this one (https://github.com/DrHazemAli/AzureSoraSDK/blob/main/samples/BasicExample/Program.cs) if you want, to be part of the repo. Once the code is there, I'll update the docs to reference to your repo, nuget package and more.

Once again, great work! 👏👏👏

Best

[DrHazemAli]

Thanks so much @elbruno, @amynic for recognizing this!
I'm glad to be a part of the repo for sure, I've already opened a PR with the sample.
Please feel free to review it.

[elbruno]

@DrHazemAli PR Merged, I'm working on the docs now!

This is amazing, thanks 🙏

[elbruno]

@DrHazemAli doc updated! (https://github.com/microsoft/Generative-AI-for-beginners-dotnet/blob/main/03-CoreGenerativeAITechniques/07-ImageVideoGenerationNewModels.md#using-azuresorasdk-alternative-approach)

Once again, thanks for the cool and useful package for the .NET devs!

Best

[DrHazemAli]

Thanks so much @elbruno

Really appreciate your valuable time merging the PR and updating the docs!

Glad the SDK is proving useful for the community 🙌

I’ve also published another SDK: AzureImageSDK, focused on image generation and captioning using Azure AI along with powerful utilities included.
I'm glad to be a part of the repo and always happy to contribute.