Building Intelligent Apps with .NET and Azure AI Services

This comprehensive book equips you with the knowledge and skills you need to develop intelligent solutions by leveraging the capabilities of Azure AI Services. The book adopts a practical and example-based approach to help you easily grasp the subject matter and apply it effectively.

The book begins by covering essential topics that lay the foundation for understanding Azure AI Services. You will know how to provision Azure AI Services and seamlessly integrate them into your .NET applications. Through detailed and illustrative examples, you will be guided step-by-step in building intelligent solutions that target a range of platforms. In addition to the core concepts, the book delves into various AI services, offering practical guidance on building solutions for a wide array of scenarios. From text translation to image classification, you will learn how to harness the power of Azure AI Services to solve complex problems.

The book presents near-production scenarios and includes carefully crafted lab exercises to provide you with a hands-on learning experience.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

* Understand various Azure AI services required to build intelligent apps
* Perform language-based document classification with Azure AI Language Service
* Build a multi-language text translator app with .NET MAUI
* Integrate GenAI capabilities to your applications by leveraging Azure OpenAI

WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR

Developers, cloud architects, and tech enthusiasts looking forward to building scalable and intelligent solutions using Azure AI Services and .NET

ASHIRWAD SATAPATHI works as a software engineer at Microsoft and has expertise in building scalable applications with .NET Core. He has a deep understanding of building full-stack applications using .NET and Azure PaaS and Serverless offerings. And he is an active blogger in the C# developer community. He has been awarded the C# Corner Most Valuable Professional (MVP) - September 2020, and September 2021, for his remarkable contributions to the developer community.

Ashirwad is an active speaker and delivers sessions on Blazor and Microsoft Azure. He has spoken for multiple communities such as Microsoft Reactor Bangalore, UTF, Konfhub Tech Conferences, and Serverless Days Amsterdam. And he is an active community organizer and member of Utkal Techies Forum (UTF), a developer community based out of Odisha, India, and helps organize events for the community. He is a member of the Outreach Committee of .NET Foundation. And he has started Serverless Days Bhubaneswar and hosts virtual sessions to build awareness among the developer community in the region about Serverless technologies and making them proficient enough to build highly scalable and efficient serverless applications.

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Build a language-based document classifier with Azure Functions.- Chapter 3: Build a multi-language text translator app with Azure Functions.- Chapter 4: Build a desktop app with .NET MAUI to generate texts from audio files.- Chapter 5: Build a desktop app with .NET MAUI to extract text from images.- Chapter 6: Build a web app to extract data from invoices using Azure AI Document Intelligence.- Chapter 7: Build a Content flagging app with Azure AI Content Safety.- Chapter 8: Build a text summarizer with Azure OpenAI.