All Things Microsoft AI

Recently Vinod Kurpad delivered a presentation on using AI to build document processing workflows.  The presentation s lides can be found at  https://on24static.akamaized.net/event/34/60/86/0/rt/1/documents/resourceList1636579433122/useaitobuilddocumentprocessingworkflows1636579401517.pdf   By using AI, several boxed fields (i.e. SSN) on a forma can be treated as 1 field.  It allows dynamic entities, like tables, to recognize multiple rows in a single table with various column types.   Listed below are questions and answers discussed during the presentation:   Could the Form Recognizer be used in Power Apps for receipt processing? Instead of using the AI Builder SKU that comes with Power Apps at an additional licensing cost Form Recognizer is available in Power Apps and has a receipt processing app in Power Apps. Licensing model in this scenario is via Power Apps.  https://powerapps.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/process-receipts-with-a...

On October 28, 2021, Jeff Fritz (Microsoft) presented “What’s new in .Net 6” to the Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group .  A recording of that presentation is now available here on my YouTube Channel . Listed below is a brief summary of the key points from that presentation.   C#10 Program.cs and startup.cs are the starting point files for all .Net applications Program.cs no longer needs namespace and ‘Program’ class declaration.  All of that is now implied Read-only records can now be created in C#. “global using whatsNewinCSharp10;” can be specified in 1 file and it will apply to entire application <ImplicitUsings>enable in ,CSPROJ will bring in namespaces need for the project’ Generated global using statements will be inserted in *.g.cs ‘namespace whatsNewinCSharp10;’ without {} can be used at the top of the file String interpolation is now available in constants (public const string m...