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In this post, I will go through how to use Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services to create a Custom Bing Search app in Visual Studio. The first thing you will need is to create a custom search instance and get API keys. Once you have done that, create a new console app in Visual Studio: You will see: Add NewtonSoft.Json through NuGet: Add the code. This is built on the example … Continue reading Bing Custom Search Hello World in C#
In this post, we will create a new Bing Custom Search Instance that we can use to access the Bing Custom Search API. This will enable us to access the Bing Search API from apps we build, thereby opening our apps to the power of Bing Search. First, go to https://www.customsearch.ai/ and sign in: You will see the steps below. Click Create new instance: Name the instance and click OK: You … Continue reading Creating a Bing Custom Search Instance with Keys for Bing API
In this post we will go through signing up for a Bing Custom Search key using the Azure portal. Go to https://portal.azure.com and search for Bing Custom Search: Click Create: Enter details including the name and pricing tier. Click Create: You will see below, with the endpoint, e.g. https://api.cognitive.microsoft.com/bingcustomsearch/v7.0 Click on Keys and note the keys for use in your apps:
Log into https://portal.azure.com/ and select Virtual Machines. Click Add: And Create Virtual Machine: There are several machine images to choose from. We will select Windows Server: And then the build – Windows Server 2016 Datacenter: Click Create: Enter information such as the machine name, disk type (premium SSD or standard HHD), username and password: Select the compute type: And now the Settings: Select the inbound ports: We will select RDP: Note … Continue reading Creating an Azure Virtual Machine
In this post we will install Unified Service Desk 4.0 client and server. This is for a new installation in Dynamics 365. Go to: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=57273 Click Download: Select the PackageDeployer, which will install the new USD solutions in Dynamics 365, and the client version you require – x86 or x64: Run the Package Deployer: Click Continue: Select location for extracting files: Click Continue: Enter your Dynamics 365 credentials and click Login: … Continue reading Installing Unified Service Desk 4.0 Server and Client
Power BI is Microsoft’s cloud-based Business Intelligence Suite. Understanding how the pieces fit together can be a little challenging. In this post, I will discuss what Power BI is and how all the pieces fit together. Power BI consists of: Power BI Desktop Power BI Service Power BI Report Server Power BI Mobile Let’s look at each of these. Power BI Desktop Power BI Desktop is a downloadable tool that … Continue reading Getting Started with Power BI – What is Desktop, Service, Free, Pro, Premium, Embedded and Mobile
In this post, we will go through creating a report in Power BI Report Server. First, open Power BI Desktop for Report Server. Close the welcome window: Select to Get Data. We will select SQL Server: We will pull data from a localhost database: Click Connect: Click Load to load to the data into Power BI: You will see: We now need to add relationships to our data. Click on … Continue reading Creating a Report in Power BI Report Server
To install Power BI Desktop for Report Server, go to the download page and click Download: Select the PBIDesktopRS version: Run the exe and click Next: Click Next: Click Next: Click Install: Click Finish and launch: Power BI Desktop Report Server will launch:
To install Power BI Report Server, go through the following steps. First, download the software at https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/report-server/. Select Advanced Download Options: Select Download: And PowerBIReportServer.exe: Run the downloaded exe and select Install Power BI Report Server: Note the options: Click Next: Click Next: Click Install: Click Configure Report Server: Click to Connect: You are now connected: Click on Web Service URL and Apply: And Web Portal URL and Apply: Click on … Continue reading Installing Power BI Report Server
In our previous posts, we signed up for a cognitive service subscription key and built a C# console app that listens to what a user is saying, sends the input to Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services Speech Service and returns the text. In this post, we will extend our app to get the real-time weather of a city that the user speaks when prompted. Yahoo! has a Weather API that we … Continue reading Get Weather by Speaking App with Azure Cognitive Services