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🧠 Create an AI Chat App in Seconds with RAG + Image Generation (using .NET & MCP)
Hi! If you’re a .NET developer and you want to quickly build an AI-powered chat application with Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Image Generation capabilities — this guide is for you! In less than 10 minutes, and using free services, you’ll be up and running using: 🚀 .NET AI Templates🧠 Model Catalog Protocol (MCP) via Hugging… — read more
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🧠 Using SQL Server 2025 Vector Search in .NET Aspire – eShopLite Style!
Introduction SQL Server 2025 is super cool 😎 — and naturally, I had to test out the brand-new vector capabilities! If you haven’t checked it out yet, start here:🔗 https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/sql-server/what-s-new-in-sql-server-2025?view=sql-server-ver17 To explore these features, I leaned into one of my favorite playgrounds: eShopLite — a collection of sample scenarios for an eCommerce app with AI-powered… — read more
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🖼️✨ How to Use GPT-IMAGE-1 to Generate Images with C# and Azure OpenAI
with C# and Azure OpenAI 🎥 Check out the 6-minute demo on YouTube📦 Sample code on GitHub The new gpt-image-1 model (aka DALL·E 3) is now available in Azure OpenAI, and YES—you can use it from your .NET app! 🔥 In this post, I’ll show you how to integrate this magic into your C# application… — read more
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🧠✨ Testing GPT-4o’s Image Generation – From C# with ❤️ and Microsoft.Extensions.AI
Hi! OpenAI just dropped some exciting news:👉 GPT-4o can now generate images directly from prompts.Announced here: Introducing GPT-4o Image Generation, this new feature lets you go from words to stunning visuals – including photorealistic scenes, illustrations, logos, and more. The fun part? You can now generate images just by chatting with GPT-4o. The challenging part?… — read more
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CPU vs GPU: Which Wins for Running LLMs Locally?
Introduction Running large language models (LLMs) locally has become increasingly accessible, thanks to advancements in hardware and model optimization. For .NET programmers, understanding the performance differences between CPUs and GPUs is crucial to selecting the best setup for their use case. In this blog post, we’ll explore these differences by benchmarking the Llama 3.2 Vision… — read more
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Build an AI Chat in .NET Aspire with Ollama. Quickstart Guide!
Hi! Here is a small intro to the .NET Aspire + Ollama scenario in this repo: https://aka.ms/netaiaspireollamachat. You can also learn more about this, in this 5-minutes overview video: Introduction to .NET Aspire and Ollama Have you ever thought, “Why can’t my .NET app have an AI chatbot that’s ridiculously easy to integrate?” Well, meet… — read more
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#AI Generated – Unlock the Power of Low Code No Code Platforms. Unlock Your Possibilities!
Disclaimer: I didn’t write this. I’m testing some amazing AI platforms, and today I asked Writesonic (@writesonic), to write an article about Low Code – No Code and Microsoft Power Platform. The Output is amazing, very acurate, and for testing purposes I haven’t change a line of the generated text. Image Source: FreeImages The… — read more
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#Event – Global AI Bootcamp Toronto 2022, Call for Speakers open ! 💬🗨️💬
Hi ! The Global AI Bootcamp is a free one-day event organized across the world by local communities that are passionate about artificial intelligence on Microsoft Azure. Join us for the Toronto edition on January 14-15 2022! The event takes place on January 14-15th, 2021 with venues on every continent. The Global AI Bootcamp is… — read more
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#Podcast – NTN 90 – @ConoSurTech. Cursos online gratuitos de AI, Azure Fundamentals, DevOps, ITPros, Mixed Reality y mucho más !
Buenas! Hoy hemos tenido la suerte de hablar con Pablo, parte del equipo de ConoSur Tech sobre las iniciativas que llevan adelante en esta comunidad de comunidades. Hablamos sobre los diferentes cursos e iniciativas que llevan adelante y de las experiencias de las mismas. Pablo nos compartió el calendario completo para el 2021, y he… — read more
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#Event – Let’s code a drone ✈ to follow faces 😀 with #AzureIoT (x2!) Supporting the #GlobalAI Bootcamp Singapore and Germany!
Hi ! Let’s start the 2021 with some drones events supporting 2 Global AI Bootcamp events Global AI Bootcamp, Karlsruhe Germany Global AI Bootcamp, Singapore Please each event location for specific details on time and streaming options. Let’s code a drone to follow faces syncing everything with Azure IoT You can control a drone using… — read more
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#Event – Let’s hack a drone, hack the camera and use AI! virtual with Microsoft Reactor @MSFTReactor
Hi ! Today I’ll share a new version of my drone and Artificial Intelligence session, hosted by Microsoft Reactor Toronto. The registration link and details are available here — read more
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#Office – New Microsoft Word editor helps support Inclusive Language.
Hi! I already write about some cool features embedded in Office to help us to be more productive. These features are mostly based on Artificial Intelligence. And one great example is the Microsoft Word Editor feature. Today I was reading an article “New AI tools help writers be more clear, concise and inclusive in Office… — read more
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#Event – Resources used during the #AI session on the Best of Build 2020 – Canada Community Edition event
Hi ! After an amazing event last Saturday, where we shared our best choices after Microsoft Build, now it’s time to share the resources used in the Artificial Intellitence session. Slides Resources Virtual Stage Creating a virtual stage when in-person isn’t possible Building Build: a behind-the-scenes look at #MSBuild AI KeyNote AI Super Computer Microsoft… — read more
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#Office – Another cool #Outlook Feature: review links and email participants before send an email
Hi! I already write about some cool features embedded in Office to help us to be more productive. Some of them are AI based, and others are so simple and useful, like this one, that they deserve a post. This is a classic one: we are trying to avoid big attachment in emails, if you… — read more
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#Event – Resources used during the #GlobalAI Tour, Buenos Aires, May 30. Let’s code a drone to follow faces! Using AI, Python, containers and more.
Hi ! The event is complete, and now is time to share the resources I used during the session Slides Code https://github.com/elbruno/events/tree/master/2020%2005%2030%20Global%20AI%20Tour%20BsAs%20Drone%20AI Resources DJI Tello Drone, https://www.amazon.com/Tello-CP-PT-00000252-01-Quadcopter-Drone/dp/B07BDHJJTH Ryze Tello SDK, https://www.ryzerobotics.com/tello Viola Jones, Object Detection Framework, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola%E2%80%93Jones_object_detection_framework Cognitive Services Custom Vision, https://customvision.ai — read more
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#Event – #GlobalAI On Tour, Argentina. Vamos a programar a un dron en Spanish !
Buenas ! Cambios de ultimo momento. Mañana estaré como uno de los ponentes virtuales en el Global AI on Tour para Argentina. Estaré hablando de drones, y más que hablando más bien programando un poco un drone para pasarlo bien. Y utilizando un poco de AI para hacer esto más divertido. Para subir el nivel,… — read more
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#Coding4Fun – How to control your #drone with 20 lines of code! (17/N)
Hi ! Once we have the a custom vision trained model instance, we can use it to recognize objects from the drone camera feed. Read my previous posts for descriptions on these. Another interesting scenario, is to save local files for every detected object. In the following code, I’ll save 2 different files for every… — read more
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#Coding4Fun – How to control your #drone with 20 lines of code! (16/N)
Hi ! In my previous post, I shared an example where I analyzed the camera feed using a Image Recognition model created using Custom Vision. Today I’ll expand the sample, and show in real time the detected MVPs logos with a frame in the drone camera feed. Let’s take a look at the demo working… — read more
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#Coding4Fun – How to control your #drone with 20 lines of code! (15/N)
Hi ! Let’s use Custom Vision to analyze the images from our drone camera. In this scenario, I created a custom model to recognize MVP awards from my MVP wall. I know, that’s bragging, but I like it. Disclaimer: There are plenty of documentation and tutorials about Custom Vision. I won’t go deep on the… — read more