Building Intelligent Apps with . NET and Azure AI Services: Start Your Journey in Building Intelligent Solutions

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 ForDevelopers, cloud architects, and tech enthusiasts looking forward to building scalable and intelligent solutions using Azure AI Services and .NET Table of Contents About the Author About the Technical Reviewer Chapter 1: Introduction Structure Objectives What Is Artificial Intelligence? Introduction to Azure AI Services A Quick Tour of Azure AI Services Azure AI Search Azure OpenAI Language Speech Translator Bot Service Content Safety Document Intelligence Immersive Reader Video Indexer Vision Custom Vision Face Summary Chapter 2: Build a Language-Based Document Classifier with Azure Functions Structure Objectives Introduction to Azure AI Language Service Problem Statement Proposed Solution Create an Azure AI Language Service Create an Azure Storage Account Create a Language-Based Document Classifier with Azure Functions Test the Language-Based Document Classifier Function Summary Chapter 3: Build a Multi-language Text Translator App with Azure Functions Structure Objectives Introduction to Azure AI Translator Service Problem Statement Proposed Solution Create an Azure AI Translator Service Create a Multi-language Text Translator App Test the Multi-language Text Translator Function with Postman Summary Chapter 4: Build a Desktop App with .NET MAUI to Generate Texts from Audio Files Structure Objectives Introduction to Azure AI Speech Service Problem Statement Proposed Solution Create an Azure AI Speech Service Create a Desktop App with .NET MAUI to Generate Texts from Audio Files Test the .NET MAUI App Summary Chapter 5: Build a Desktop App with .NET MAUI to Extract Text from Images Structure Objectives Introduction to Azure AI Vision Service Problem Statement Proposed Solution Create an Azure AI Computer Vision Service Create a Desktop App with .NET MAUI to Extract Text from Images Test the .NET MAUI App Summary Chapter 6: Build a Web App to Extract Data from Invoices Using Azure AI Document Intelligence Structure Objectives Introduction to Azure AI Document Intelligence Service Problem Statement Proposed Solution Create an Azure AI Document Intelligence Service Build a Web App to Extract Data from Receipts Using Azure AI Document Intelligence Test the Web App Summary Chapter 7: Build a Content-Flagging App with Azure AI Content Safety Structure Objectives Introduction to Azure AI Content Safety Service Problem Statement Proposed Solution Create an Azure AI Content Safety Service Build a Content-Flagging App with Azure AI Content Safety Service Test the Content-Flagging App Summary Chapter 8: Build a Text Summarizer with Azure OpenAI Structure Objectives Introduction to Azure OpenAI Service Problem Statement Proposed Solution Create an Azure OpenAI Service Build a Text Summarizer with Azure OpenAI Test the Text Summarizer App Summary Index 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