Update Azure.Core to latest version - lift all runtime dependencies to latest

[eerhardt]

Update to Azure.Core 1.51.1

Use latest versions for all dotnet/runtime nuget packages. This simplifies our dependency management. Too many of our dependencies are using v10 runtime packages it makes it hard to keep using transitive pinning and central package management. Aligning with the rest of the ecosystem and just always using latest.

Remove ForceLatestDotnetVersions property from multiple project files

[github-actions]

🚀 Dogfood this PR with:

⚠️ WARNING: Do not do this without first carefully reviewing the code of this PR to satisfy yourself it is safe.

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dotnet/aspire/main/eng/scripts/get-aspire-cli-pr.sh | bash -s -- 14361

Or

• Run remotely in PowerShell:

iex "& { $(irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dotnet/aspire/main/eng/scripts/get-aspire-cli-pr.ps1) } 14361"

[eerhardt]

FYI - @joperezr @DamianEdwards - with the update to the latest Azure.Core (1.51.1), it is bringing in a bunch of v10 packages from dotnet/runtime unconditionally. See Azure/azure-sdk-for-net#54590 (comment).

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

This PR adjusts central package versioning to accommodate dependency version lifts (in the context of updating Azure.Provisioning.AppContainers) by removing per-project “force latest” switches and updating centrally managed package versions.

Changes:

• Removed ForceLatestDotnetVersions from several OpenAI/Azure AI component, test, and playground projects.
• Updated Directory.Packages.props to bump Azure.Core and restructure version groups, including pinning several runtime packages centrally.
• Simplified conditional package version logic by removing the ForceLatestDotnetVersions condition from the net10 group.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 11 out of 11 changed files in this pull request and generated 2 comments.

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File	Description
tests/Aspire.OpenAI.Tests/Aspire.OpenAI.Tests.csproj	Removes ForceLatestDotnetVersions property.
tests/Aspire.Azure.AI.OpenAI.Tests/Aspire.Azure.AI.OpenAI.Tests.csproj	Removes ForceLatestDotnetVersions property.
tests/Aspire.Azure.AI.Inference.Tests/Aspire.Azure.AI.Inference.Tests.csproj	Removes ForceLatestDotnetVersions property.
src/Components/Aspire.OpenAI/Aspire.OpenAI.csproj	Removes ForceLatestDotnetVersions property.
src/Components/Aspire.Azure.AI.OpenAI/Aspire.Azure.AI.OpenAI.csproj	Removes ForceLatestDotnetVersions property.
src/Components/Aspire.Azure.AI.Inference/Aspire.Azure.AI.Inference.csproj	Removes ForceLatestDotnetVersions property.
playground/OpenAIEndToEnd/OpenAIEndToEnd.WebStory/OpenAIEndToEnd.WebStory.csproj	Removes ForceLatestDotnetVersions property.
playground/GitHubModelsEndToEnd/GitHubModelsEndToEnd.WebStory/GitHubModelsEndToEnd.WebStory.csproj	Removes ForceLatestDotnetVersions property.
playground/AzureOpenAIEndToEnd/AzureOpenAIEndToEnd.WebStory/AzureOpenAIEndToEnd.WebStory.csproj	Removes ForceLatestDotnetVersions property.
playground/AzureAIFoundryEndToEnd/AzureAIFoundryEndToEnd.WebStory/AzureAIFoundryEndToEnd.WebStory.csproj	Removes ForceLatestDotnetVersions property.
Directory.Packages.props	Bumps Azure.Core, restructures common/conditional version groups, and adds centrally pinned runtime package versions.