Thursday, June 22, 2023

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Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Q&A

While attending a Microsoft Azure Fundamentals Training session today, some interesting questions were posted.  Listed below is the Q&A from the forum:

 

1.      How does private cloud differ from on-prem?

A private cloud may be hosted from your onsite datacenter, which would be on-premises. It may also be hosted in a dedicated datacenter offsite, potentially even by a third party that has dedicated that datacenter to your company. You can find more information here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/describe-cloud-compute/5-define-cloud-models

 

2.      Which is cheaper, public or hybrid cloud?

This depends on how your organization is structured, the size, and the services you need. You can compare on-premises and cloud costs using the Total Cost of Ownership Calculator here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/tco/

 

3.      When to use private cloud (on prem) without [public] cloud ?

In some cases, your organization may be legally required to store information in your own data center. There may be other compliance and cost considerations as well. The size of your company and the resources you need may be less expensive in one form or another. You can find more information here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/describe-cloud-compute/5-define-cloud-models

 

4.      Does Hybrid cloud incurs both capital and operational expenditure?

Yes, hybrid cloud incurs both capital and operational expenditure.

 

5.      Is there any difference in availability of private and public cloud ?

There may be a difference in availability depending on the circumstances. If you have older technology in your private cloud, you may have more latency. Or, if you have resources on the other side of the globe in the public cloud, you may also have latency. There are many variables.

 

6.      What’s the definition for public cloud?

A public cloud is built, controlled, and maintained by a third-party cloud provider. You can find more information here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/describe-cloud-compute/5-define-cloud-models

 

7.      Does "Private Cloud" mean some form on on-prem Azure or AWS, etc.?

Azure and AWS are examples of Public Cloud. This is the opposite of private cloud. with Private cloud, you are owning/operating your own resources. With public cloud, your provider owns and operates the hardware. You can find more information here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/describe-cloud-compute/5-define-cloud-models

 

8.      Would you explain the difference between elasticity and scalability?

Scalability means increasing or decreasing services as needed. Elasticity refers to enabling the increase or decrease of automatically: When a resource meets a limit, it will automatically increase as needed.

 

9.      If I create a VM in Cloud, will I be charged even if VM is shut down?

Yes, because your VM is still taking up storage space. You will not be charged for run time if it is not running, though.

 

10.   Does Azure provide private cloud capabilities if customer demands?

Yes, there are some options for organizations to have dedicated hardware. One example is with Azure dedicated host. More information about that is available here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/dedicated-hosts  

 

11.   Please provide definition for CAPEX

CapEx refers to Capital Expenditure and is typically a one-time, up-front expenditure to purchase or secure tangible resources. A new building, repaving the parking lot, building a datacenter, or buying a company vehicle are examples of CapEx. You can find more information here: learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/describe-cloud-compute/6-describe-consumption-based-model

 

12.   Do Microsoft Azure has a data center in the continent of Antarctica?

Great question. I don't see one in Antarctica. You can find the list here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/explore/global-infrastructure/geographies/#choose-your-region  

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Thursday, April 27, 2023

May '23 Tech Events

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May 5: StirTrek

May 11-13: Global Azure 2023

May 20: Ohio North SQL Saturday

 

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Friday, January 20, 2023

7 Ways to Reduce Azure Costs

Listed below are 7 ways to reduce your Azure monthly cost.


1. Shut down unused resources

Use Azure Advisor to identify idle virtual machines (VMs), ExpressRoute circuits, and other unused resources.


2. Right-size underused resources

Find resources not fully utilized with Azure Advisor.  It will also provide recommendations on reconfiguring resources to reduce cost.


3. Reserve instances for consistent workloads

Use reservation pricing to pre-pay for resources for a 1 or 3 year term.  This could result in a discount of up to 72% over pay-as-you-go pricing on Azure services.


4. Take advantage of the Azure Hybrid Benefit

Have existing on-premises software licenses?  Use them with Azure for no additional cost and select Azure services for free.


5. Configure autoscaling

Avoid the high cost of hardware investment used only during peak times of the year.  Instead, dynamically allocate and de-allocate resources to match your business needs when you need it.


6. Set up budgets and allocate costs to teams and projects

Use Microsoft Cost Management to create and manage budgets of Azure services used, and monitor your organization’s cloud spending.


7. Choose the right Azure compute service

Azure offers a variety of resources, with varying degrees of management.  Depending on the level of resource management you choose, the monthly spend can be reduced significantly. Use the following diagrams to identify the various resources and management needs.

 

 

Diagram Reference: https://medium.com/chenjd-xyz/azure-fundamental-iaas-paas-saas-973e0c406de7

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Text-to-Speech Step-By-Step

Overview

Speech services is one of the main categories of Azure Cognitive Services.  Using this service, developers can utilize one of the four API’s to perform the following:

  1. Speech-to-Text
  2. Text-to-Speech
  3. Text Translation
  4. Speaker Recognition

 

In a previous post, I wrote a tutorial on converting Speech-to-Text.  For this post, I will go in the opposite direction and provide step-by-step directions to covert text-to-speech.

 

 

How to Use Text-to-Speech

  1. First, we need to setup the Speech resource in Azure.  Simply specify “speech services” in the search bar, and all speech resources in Azure marketplace will be displayed.  For this project, we will use Microsoft’s Speech Azure Service.

 

 

  1. After clicking create and providing the fundamental parameters for the setup, subscription keys will be provided.

 

 

 

  1. Obtain the subscription key for the above resource

 

 

 

  1. Setup a console project in Visual Studio, and add the “Microsoft.CognitiveServices.Speech” NuGet package.  Listed below is the complete code file.

 

 

The class “Program” contains 2 methods: Main() & CheckResult(). 

 

Breaking Down Main()

Looking at Main(), the first task is to obtain the Subscription key and region.  These 2 values are obtained from Step 3 above, and are tied to the Azure subscription.  They can be used by anyone who obtains them.  For this reason, these items are stored in .Config file and not made available to the reader.

 

The next task is to instantiate SpeechConfig class using the subscription and region.  The purpose of this class to contain all configuration for the Speech Service.

In addition to subscription and region, line 14 specifies the voice to be used for the speech synthesis.  Azure Speech Service offers a variety of voices and supported languages, and can be found here.

 

After the speechConfig class is configured, it’s passed to the constructor of the SpeechSynthesizer class.  As the name suggests, this class contains methods for synthesizing, or converting, text to speech.  It utilizes all configuration settings specified in the prior steps.

 

In lines 17-26, an infinite while loop cycles through asking the user for text input, asynchronously calling the SpeakTextAsync() in the speechSynthesizer class. 

speechSynthesizer.SpeakTextAsync() is an async method that takes the text string as an input parameter, sends it to Azure Speech Services to be synthesized as the desired spoken language, then plays the synthesized speech on the default speaker.

 

 

Breaking Down CheckResult()

This method is used for error checking the synthesis results and handling it accordingly. CheckResult() examines the results returned in the Reason property of the speechSynthesisResult instance.  If synthesis completed successfully, it simply echoes the text entered.  Otherwise if an error occurred, it will display the messages stored in the ErrorCode and ErrorDetails properties of the SpeechSynthesisCancellationDetails class.

 

A complete demo of Text-to-Speech service can be found in this segment.

 

 

Why use Text-to-Speech

The first reaction most developers have once they hear the results is “how cool is this?”.  It’s certainly cool, but the benefits of this feature extend beyond a novelty. Applications can now verbally communicate results with visually impaired users, a segment of the user population that is often overlooked.  Another benefit of verbal communication is allowing all users to hear results while doing other tasks instead of having to focus on a screen to read results. Text-to-Speech is 1 of 4 services in the Speech category of Cognitive Services. 

 

A video presentation and demo on “Overview of Speech Services” discusses all the services in more detail.  The corresponding code used for the video presentation and this article can be found at https://github.com/SamNasr/AzureSpeechServices.

 

 

This post was featured as part of the C# Advent 2022, an annual blogging event hosted by Matthew D. Groves. 

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Wednesday, December 7, 2022

VNet Questions Answered

During the last meeting of the .NET Study Group on Azure Virtual Networks, a couple questions came up that needed further explanation.  I thought it would be best to post the and share them

 

Question: Do I need a NSG or Subnet if a VM is in VNet? 

Answer: Yes, it’s a best practice.  By default, services outside the VNet cannot connect to services within the VNet.

However, you can configure the network to allow access to the external service.  Therefore, assume you have a VNet that contains both web servers and DB servers.  You can have VNET configured for public access to allow outside users to access the web servers.  You would also need a subnet or NSG to prevent that same public traffic from accessing the DB servers in the same VNet.

 

Question: Can you provide a sample diagram of the Azure Infrastructure and how VNets would be implemented?

Answer: See below for the Sample Azure Infrastructure Diagram: (https://www.dotnettricks.com/learn/azure/what-is-microsoft-azure-virtual-network-and-architecture)

 

 

 

Question: Where can I find a list of Frequently asked questions on Azure VNets?

Answer: For additional reading on Azure VNet, see the FAQ page at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/virtual-networks-faq

 

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Monday, November 21, 2022

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Thursday, March 24, 2022

Mar/Apr '22 Tech Events

Virtual User Group Meetings for Mar/Apr ‘22

 

Mar 24: “Predicting Flights with Azure Databricks” - https://www.meetup.com/NWVDNUG/events/284074689/

Mar 29: “Machine Learning in .Net” - https://www.meetup.com/Edmonton-NET-User-Group/events/284389088/

Apr 4: Ohio North Database Training- https://www.meetup.com/ohio-north-database-training/events/

Apr 13: Azure Cleveland - https://www.meetup.com/Azure-Cleveland-Meetup/

Apr 21: GLUG.Net - https://www.meetup.com/GLUGnet/events/

Apr 28: Cleveland C#/VB.Net User Group - https://www.meetup.com/Cleveland-C-VB-Net-User-Group

 

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Thursday, February 24, 2022

Mar '22 Technical Events

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Friday, January 28, 2022

Overview of Cognitive Services

Microsoft’s Azure offers a great deal of features and capabilities.  One of them is Cognitive Services, where users can access a variety of APIs to help mimic a human response.  Some features include converting text to spoken speech, speech to text, and even the equivalent human understanding of a spoken phrase.  These services are divided into 4 major categories, as seen below.  Please note “Computer Vision” and “Custom Vision” sound very similar but their capabilities are different, as outlined in the “Vision” section below.

 

Decision

  1. Anomaly Detector: Identify potential problems in time series data.
  2. Content Moderator: Detect potentially offensive or unwanted content.
  3. Personalizer: Create rich, personalized experiences for every user.

 

Language

  1. LUIS (Language Understanding Intelligent Service)
  2. QnA Maker: Create a conversational question and answer layer over your data.
  3. Text Analytics: Detect sentiment, key phrases, and named entities.
  4. Translator: Detect and translate more than 90 supported languages.

 

Speech

  1. Speech to Text: Transcribe audible speech into readable, searchable text.
  2. Text to Speech: Convert text to lifelike speech for more natural interfaces.
  3. Speech Translation: Integrate real-time speech translation into your apps.
  4. Speaker Recognition: Identify and verify the people speaking based on audio.

 

Vision

  1. Computer Vision: Analyze content in images.
    1. OCR: Optical Character Recognition
    2. Image Analysis: extracts visual features from images (objects, faces, adult content
    3. Spatial Analysis: Analyzes the presence and movement of people on a video feed and produces events that other systems can respond to.

 

  1. Custom Vision: Customize image recognition to fit your business needs.
    1. Image Classification: applies label(s) to an image
    2. Object Detection: returns coordinates in image where applied label(s) can be found.

Note: Model can be exported for use: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/custom-vision-service/export-your-model

 

  1. Face: Detect and identify people and emotions in images.
  2. Video Indexer: Analyze the visual and audio channels of a video, and index its content.
  3. Form Recognizer: Extract text, key-value pairs and tables from documents.
  4. Ink Recognizer: Recognize digital ink and handwriting, and pinpoint common shapes.

 

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Saturday, December 4, 2021

How (and Why) You Should Use Speech-to-text

Overview

Speech-to-text is one of the many cognitive services offered by Azure.  All Azure cognitive services can be classified into one of four primary categories:

  1. Decision
  2. Language
  3. Speech
  4. Vision

Each category contains a variety of services, with Speech-to-text categorized in the “Speech” category.  It converts spoken language to text using either an SDK or web API call.  Both methods will require a subscription key, obtained by a brief resource setup in the Azure portal.  Speech-to-text can be configured to recognize a variety of languages as displayed at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cognitive-services/speech-service/language-support.

In addition, the source of the speech could be either live spoken words, or a recording.

 

How to Use Speech-to-text

Project Setup (using SDK)

  1. Setup the Speech-to-text resource in Azure.  Simply specify “speech services” in the search bar, and all speech resources in Azure marketplace will be displayed.  For this demo, we will use Microsoft’s Speech Azure Service.

 

 

  1. After clicking create and providing the fundamental parameters for the setup, subscription keys will be provided.

 

 

 

  1. Obtain the subscription key for the above resource

 

 

 

  1. Setup a project with the “Microsoft.CognitiveServices.Speech” NuGet package.

 

 

  1. Listen and convert

 

Why you should use Speech-to-text?

Accessibility! Most applications depend on users not being vision impaired.  However, this prevents a significant number of users from using an application due to their impaired vision.  Certainly screen readers have been available in the Windows OS for nearly 2 decades.  This allows any user to understand what is displayed on the screen.  However, an impaired user will have difficulty interacting with the user interface (i.e. submitting info, filling forms, etc.).  Thanks to Speech-to-text, users can now speak to the application and have the words dynamically translated to text in the application.  This makes the application accessible to more users, as well as ADA and WCAG compliant.

 

This post was featured as part of the C# Advent 2021, an annual blogging event hosted by Matthew D. Groves. 

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Tuesday, November 30, 2021

AI Document Processing Workflows Q&A

Recently Vinod Kurpad delivered a presentation on using AI to build document processing workflows.  The presentation slides 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:

 

  1. 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-ai-builder/

  1. Is it possible to detect if a line of text on a document is a 'header' of the document section? For example, a form where customer data is entered might have a header above it that says "Customer Information".

Not yet, Layout currently supports text, checkboxes, selection marks and reading order. Paragraphs, headers and more are on the roadmap.

  1. Can the output from the model be XML?

Currently the only supported format is JSON. But there are a number of JSON to XML converters that should enable you to convert the output to XML

  1. Is there any plan to support "reading order" when there are multiple columns of text (or an inset section within a larger body of text)

Reading order already supports multiple columns. Try it out :)

  1. For the receipts, would you be able to extract the information in such a way, that you could later write a query to calculate total amount for a given date?

Form Recognizer receipts returns all line items, date, total etc. You can write validations and additional logics on top of the output as post processing. See here for all fields extracted from receipts - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/applied-ai-services/form-recognizer/concept-receipt

  1. Is there any plan to recognize paragraphs?

It's on the roadmap for a preview in the first half of next year.

  1. If you are interested in seeing Azure Form Recognizer applied to Financial Services, a great example is linked below:

https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/financial-fabric-banking-capital-markets-azure

  1. What is the lowest DPI that this can read?

When using Form Recognizer no pre-processing of the images are needed. It supports low dpi and various image qualities.

  1. A key value pair can be a field text label and a field value?

Yes, a key value pair can also be a value with no explicitly labeled key, but a span of text that describes the value.

  1. can it recognize handwritten forms?

Yes, Form Recognizer supports handwritten in the following languages - English, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish. see all supported languages printed and handwritten here - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/applied-ai-services/form-recognizer/language-support

  1. which languages does it current support

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/applied-ai-services/form-recognizer/language-support

  1. what are the supported file formats

Form Recognizer supports the following file formats - PDF (digital and scanned and multi-page), Tiff, bmp, jpg, png

  1. Does the solution skew, rotate and adjust poorly scanned forms?

Yes it does. No pre-processing needed. Please send the source document to Form Recognizer as is and Form Recognizer will do all the work for you.

  1. Are you considering combining this with voice recognition to enable the creation of printed transcripts from recorded interviews?

Cognitive Services also includes speech to text and transcription APIs that you can combine for interviews.

  1. My first time with Form recognizer but I am getting this error while configuring a resource - Operation returned an invalid status code 'Conflict' Form Recognizer Studio

Try creating a resource with a different name and see if that helps- the Studio is continually improving after the recent preview. Also send an email to formrecog_contact@microsoft.com

  1. Can Form Recognizer handle PDF's with FDF's included? For example, a fill-in form that includes signatures (which are not fill-in).

Form Recognizer includes signature detection capability, you can train a model to detect if a signature is detected or not.

  1. Do documents need to be OCR-ed? I am guessing it can't read pdf's with text in them, but embedded as images?

The Form Recognizer features (APIs) build on top of OCR and handle digital, images and hybrid documents transparently.

  1. For knowledge-mining of documents, in the example, it showed some results from a search with a synopsis of what I perceive are different documents. How does one then get to the specific document from the text provided (e.g., hyperlinked)?

The demo showed the specific document rendered in the browser, you can add a URL field to the index which is a pointer to the location of the original document

  1. Is it possible to label a table that spans across multiple pages in the custom model?

Not yet, on our roadmap but not available yet. Currently you should split the document into pages in such case and send the individual pages to Form Recognizer and then unite them in post processing. For invoices and line items tables that span multiple pages are supported.

  1. Is it possible to open a fott project in Form recognizer studio?

Yes, Form Recognizer enables opening an FOTT project and Form Recognizer supports backward compatibility and you can use 2.1 release models in the new release also.

  1. Can you talk about what I would do if I get different form types and don't know which one I'm receiving. (I'm thinking of data from a doctor's office, and they send all sorts of different forms)

If you know the different form types you expect to receive, you should be able to train a model for each form and compose all the individual models into a single logical model. Sending a document to this logical model will result in the document being classified to determine the right model to extract the fields. The selected model is also returned as part of the response

  1. Do all the documents need to be on Azure for Azure knowledge-mining to work, or can they be left on the existing Microsoft server and be auto-identified/updated?

No data can be anywhere and you can stream the document to Form Recognizer for analyzing or send a URL. Only your training data to train a custom model needs to be in a blob and only 5 documents are needed to get started with custom and train your own model

  1. Is there a max file size?

Max file size is 50MB currently.

  1. How would you train 2nd & 3rd pages of documents?

The Studio and the underlying files handle multi-page labels and navigating across pages to label the data you want to extract.

  1. Can you train the model with only 1 sample of a variation?

To train a model all documents within a project and a model needs to be from the same type, same format. You can then compose several models into a model composed so you do not need to classify the document before sending it to Form Recognizer. You need 5 forms from the same type to train a model.

  1. WoW, the form has handwritten text Will it be challenging for training the model since handwriting can be very different from individuals?

Form Recognizer text extraction supports print and handwritten and we just expanded handwritten from English to Simplified Chinese, French, Italian, Spanish, German, and Portuguese

  1. Can it handle files with hundreds of multipage documents?

Yes, Form Recognizer supports multipage documents.

  1. Is there a Resource provider that is necessary to be registered in Azure?

Form Recognizer is the resource you need to create in the portal

  1. What is a FOTT project?

The previous version of the labeling tool that's now superseded by the new Form Recognizer Studio -https://fott-2-1.azurewebsites.net/

  1. What if tables have sometimes 4 or 5 columns? And the headings of those tables are the same, but sometimes they appear as A,B,C, D and sometimes A, D, C, B

Layout extracts tables as they appear on the document and will try to extract all rows and columns including indicate merged rows and columns spans. When labeling tables if the table changes and has a variety numbers or rows or columns you can label it as a dynamic table.

  1. Can form recognizer handle handwritings ?

Yes, Form Recognizer supports handwritten text in the following languages - English, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish. see all supported languages printed and handwritten here - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/applied-ai-services/form-recognizer/language-support

  1. How do you open an existing FOTT project in Form Recognizer Studio?

Connect to the same blob storage and the project will open with all the data and labeling completed.

  1. Is it safe to assume that this will be added to the power automate stack?

AI Builder which is a part of the Power Automate stack uses Form Recognizer and you should be able to use the same set of capabilities in AI Builder as well.

  1. If yes, how accurate can form recognizer translate the handwritings into text ? did you benchmark it against medical notes - type of handwritings

We suggest benchmarking it on your content but we believe and customers have validated that the handwritten OCR is world class for the supported languages, and yes Form Recognizer and OCR tech are heavily used in healthcare and financial verticals that involve processing handwritten text

  1. If there are variations within a document over some years, how does the Form Recognizer handle such variations?

When training a custom model if the variations are slight a key name changed, moved etc. than Form Recognizer should be able to extract, if you see that it misses than you can add a few documents with the variation to the model and improve the model. If the variation is big than you should train a model per year and then compose them to a model composed.

  1. Are there any additional examples documentation or videos available or sandbox?

You can start with the documentation https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/applied-ai-services/form-recognizer/ . Also note that Form Recognizer supports a free tier which should allow you to test all the different features without paying for it

  1. Can I create custom code to integrate custom functionality in the workflow using C#?

Yes! Form Recognizer supports a few different languages with an SDK, but the REST API is available for languages not supported by an SDK

  1. How well does it generalize tables that don't have a strict row column format. For example, maybe some table cells are split cells that contain multiple fields?

Form Recognizer supports split cells, merged cells tables with no borders and complex tables. See more details on table extraction int he following blog https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-ai/enhanced-table-extraction-from-documents-with-form-recognizer/ba-p/2058011

  1. Can form recognizer identify tables when the tables are not delimited, but the columns are easily seen and organized?

If you mean concatenated or complex tables, then yes, we are continuously improving on extracting those. On the other hand, table extraction supports tables with or without physical lines.

  1. Is there any way to use this with power automate with clients that are on another 365 domain?

Form Recognizer is integrating within Power Apps see Form Processing apps. In reference to another 365 domain can you please reach out to Form Recognizer Contact Us and we can try to assist

 

 

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Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Summary of What's new in .Net 6

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 myDateTime = $”{System.DateTime.Now.ToString()}”; )

 

Blazor

  • 40-60% performance improvement in Blazor
  • Blazor apps to run as native apps
  • <PageTitle> and <HeadContent> can now be specified for each page
  • Ports in the URL are now randomly generated, no longer using Port 5000

 

 

.Net Release and LTS (Long Term Support) Schedule

 

Resources

 

 

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