The Bing Visual Search API returns information about an image that you provide. In this tutorial we will create a simple console application, that sends a Bing Visual Search API request and displays the JSON search results. Prerequisites To use the Bing Web Search API you need to create a Cognitive Services …
Hey everyone! This period is the Europe CodeWeek. EU Code Week is a grassroots initiative which aims to bring coding and digital literacy to everybody in a fun and engaging way, so in cooperation with The Cube Athens I will be hosting a workshop. This will be the first event of …
In this tutorial we are going to see how to dockerize an Asp.NET Core Application. Prerequisites An ASP.NET Core application. If you don’t you can create one using Visual Studio 2017 or download a sample application from my github repository. A Docker Installation in your Linux or Windows Machine. If …
Normally, when you setup a Linux VM (for example an Ubuntu Server) in Microsoft Azure, you can only connect to and remote into it via SSH. It differs from a Windows VM in Azure, as Linux VMs do not support Remote Desktop (RDP) natively. In the following steps we are …
Trying to test the Office365 SMTP Relay Service to troubleshoot an issue I had with email sending today I came across this little useful command in PowerShell. All I had to do is enter the credentials and then send a test email. To open PowerShell right-click the start button and Choose …
In this post we are going to see how to schedule a database backup operation in SQL Server. Follow the next steps to begin. Start SQL Server Management Studio. In the Connect to Server dialog box, click the appropriate values in the Server type list, in the Server name list, and in the Authentication list. Click Connect. In Object …
As a developer designing application and implementing Databases is an everyday task. Having realistic data for testing and implementing the application or the API can be a boring job. Here comes this tool I found called Mockaroo. All you need to do is specify the columns you want and the …
You can use the Cognitive Services Speech SDK to convert Speech to Text for your application using recorded voice from a microphone or an audio file. In this tutorial we are going to see how to convert speech to text from an audio file. Prerequisites To use the Speech SDK you …
The Text to Speech (TTS) API of the Speech service converts your text into natural-sounding speech. In this tutorial to generate speech, we will send HTTP POST requests to the Speech service. There, text is synthesized into speech and returned as an audio file. A variety of voices and languages …
The Bing Autosuggest API returns a list of suggested queries based on the partial query string the user enters in the search box. The most common scenario is to call this API each time the user types a new character in the search box, and then display the suggestions in …
