Azure

Although Blazor is in early stages of development it is already good enough to try out and play with it. As a logical continuation to my previous experiment where I made Blazor application use Azure Functions based back-end. I made it also support Azure AD authentication on web application and back-end level. This blog post introduces my work on Blazor and Azure AD.

My previous blog post was an introduction to static website hosting on Azure Storage. This post focuses on how to deploy Blazor application as a Azure static website and how to use Azure Functions as a server back-end for Blazor application.

Azure has new and interesting service for hosting static sites on blob storage. There is no additional server-side application hosting account needed to run public static sites – they run straight from blob storage. Although the service is in public preview, it is time to find out how it works and when we should consider using it.

Computer Vision API of Azure Cognitive Services can be used to analyze and describe images. It’s rich API that supports also faces and landmarks recognition, not to mention automatic describing and tagging of images. This blog post shows how to use image analyzing features of Azure Cognitive Services.

Azure Cognitive Services has wider audience than cool young guys developing very cool mobile apps. These services can be used in very different use cases. This blog post shows how to use Azure Cognitive Services to automatically describe and tag photos added to Office 365 SharePoint picture library.

Microsoft Cognitive Services offers us computer vision services to describe images and to detect printed or handwritten text. Text recognition provides interesting scenarios like cloud based OCR or providing automated translations for texts on images. This blog post focuses on recognizing printed text using Azure Computer Vision API.

There are not much examples available about ASP.NET Core and acquiring access token. I found good and pretty big sample by Microsoft Patterns & Practices called multitenant-saas-guidance, Based on this I wrote my simple “boiler plate” ASP.NET Core solution that authenticates against Azure Active Directory and asks current user data using Microsoft Graph.

My previous post about Azure Cognitive Services described how to detect faces on photos. In this post I will focus on identifying people on photos. This post is based on my Azure Cognitive Services sample application that has most of Face API support implemented and the goal is to describe identifying process in brief and also show some code I have written.

I started playing with Microsoft Cognitive Services and discovered that it makes many otherwise complex tasks very easy. This blog post shows how to build web application that detects faces on uploaded photo.

We cannot use classic SharePoint workflows on Office 365 but using Microsoft Flow we can create new era flow applications that are triggered by events that happen in different sources. This blog post shows how to use Microsoft Flow and Azure Functions to send out e-mail when new meeting is added to SharePoint list. The idea of this blog post is to illustrate how to create the flow where custom code takes over in some point.