Last November, I had the incredible opportunity to attend Microsoft Ignite 2023, a melting pot of innovation and technology. This year’s event was particularly exhilarating, with a special focus on Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blazor, and the .NET Aspire program.
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XAFers Community Standup. Multitenancy
Thursday November 30th 10:00 AM GMT -7
https://www.meetup.com/arizona-xafers-user-group/events/297520223/
Creating Azure OpenAI Applications – .NET Cross Platform Applications User Group
In this presentation, we will explore how programmers can utilize Microsoft Blazor to create applications with Microsoft OpenAI. Blazor is a web framework that allows developers to build interactive web applications using C# instead of traditional web technologies like JavaScript. Microsoft Azure OpenAI is a powerful tool for natural language processing, machine learning, and other advanced AI techniques. We will cover how to integrate OpenAI into Blazor applications to add features such as chatbots and sentiment analysis. Attendees will learn about the benefits of using Blazor and OpenAI together, as well as practical examples of how to implement these technologies in their own projects.
> Learning Objectives:
- Learn about the different features offered by Azure OpenAI
- Learn how to add custom private data, and create embeddings and vectors, to implement the Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pattern.
- Gain knowledge of best practices for integrating Azure OpenAI into their C# software applications
Thursday November 9th 6:00 PM GMT -7
XAF Quick Miscellaneous Videos & Screenshots
Spontaneous collection of small videos, with no particular order or organizational structure. Ex. Random screenshot of Dashboards on Top 🙂
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Integrating Advanced Full-Text Search Capabilities into .NET Applications – .NET Cross Platform Applications User Group
What is Full-text search?
Benefits of FTS
Leveraging Apache Elasticsearch for efficient search capabilities.
Utilizing vector representations within PostgreSQL for precise search results.
Thursday October 19th 6:00 PM GMT -7
XAFers Community Standup. Integrating Advanced Full-Text Search Magic in XAF
https://www.meetup.com/arizona-xafers-user-group/events/296778620/
Thursday October 19th 10:00 AM GMT -7
XAF and Entity Framework – Video Collection
Quick post with a video collection about several features, tricks and tips of using XAF with EF Core.
Continue readingCSS Techniques for Blazor Developers – .NET Cross Platform Applications User Group
Does your CSS code remind you of an episode of Hoarders? In this session we’ll look at how to and when to use Sass or CSS Isolation with Blazor. We’ll explore techniques to build modular and intelligent CSS.
Thursday September 21st 6:00 PM GMT -7
XAF WinForms – Signing application with an EV Certificate
Real client experience.
1. Distribute your app with ClickOnce
2. Purchase an OV Code Signing Certificate. and found that a prospect was still unable to download the software, being blocked by the Microsoft SmartScreen.
3. Purchase an EV Code Signing certificate which is on a hardware token (USB). EV Code Signing boosts your SmartScreen reputation and gets your software trusted.
Now what?
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