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File Search in C# / .NET with Azure OpenAI Service Assistants V2 API
The Azure OpenAI Service is a variant of OpenAI that runs within your Azure tenant, which makes it great for companies and use cases where data sovereignty is important. I think its great! The most significant update is that the service is now open to everyone, and you don’t need special approval to access it.…
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.NET Aspire and the future of .NET
In less than a year, .NET Aspire has made it from a preview release all the way through to General Availability and its inclusion in Visual Studio. The marketing keeps saying that the important part of .NET Aspire is that it makes apps “cloud-native”, but that is only a fraction of the story – and…
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Why Microsoft Orleans is important for .NET Developers
Small to medium sized development teams often grapple with the complexities of microservices architecture. While the distributed approach offers scalability and flexibility, it can quickly become overwhelming, especially without a large team to manage the infrastructure. Enter Microsoft Orleans, a framework designed to simplify building scalable, resilient, and distributed backends. This post delves into how…
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Daily Driving the Jelly Star 3 inch Android phone
Unihertz launched the Kickstarter for their latest device, the “Jelly Star” in June 2023 and I was one of the first in line. I previously owned a “Jelly 2” before my son decided to drop it screen first onto concrete. The Jelly Star comes with a pre-applied screen protector so they’ve been listening. I won’t…
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C# 11 and .NET 7 – early look at new features
.NET 7 is coming soon alongside C# 11. It’s possible to take a look at some of the new features now, including the bang bang (!!) operator and List patterns, which I think are really cool. Here is a video on the topic:
