.Net: Bug: GeminiChatCompletionClient (Vertex AI) with location "global" always results in a 404

[schneini]

Describe the bug
Using GeminiChatCompletionClient (Vertex AI) with location global will always result in a 404.

Some models are only available when using global as the location. See here: https://cloud.google.com/vertex-ai/generative-ai/docs/learn/locations. A current example would be gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-06-17, which is only listed under Global.

The issue is that the URL in GeminiChatCompletionClient (and possibly other clients as well) is constructed like this: {location}-aiplatform.googleapis.com, which means that the URL will be global-aiplatform.googleapis.com, which is incorrect. The correct URL for the global location is aiplatform.googleapis.com (no location prepended).

To Reproduce
Use the VertexAIUsingChatCompletion example with location global:
https://github.com/microsoft/semantic-kernel/blob/main/dotnet/samples/Concepts/ChatCompletion/Google_GeminiChatCompletion.cs

Expected behavior
The correct URL is used when using global as the location.

Platform

• Language: C#
• Source: NuGet package version 1.57.0
• AI model: gemini-2.5-flash-lite-preview-06-17

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This issue is stale because it has been open for 90 days with no activity.

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This issue was closed because it has been inactive for 14 days since being marked as stale.

[schneini]

This remains an issue. Currently, gemini-3-pro cannot be used with GeminiChatCompletionClient (Vertex AI) because it is only available in the global location.