Q&A Bot with Azure OpenAI Service and Semantic Kernel

ChatGPT changes how we expect a bot to behave these days, so to build the next generation of Q&A bot developers are eager to know what's the best approach. In this session, we will demonstrate the basic concepts and how powerful Azure OpenAI Service and Semantic Kernel framework are.

Host Your Next Documentation Site on Azure Static Web Apps

You often find it important to build a documentation but wonder what can be the easiest way to create one from scratch and host on the best platform out there. In this session, I will show how Python Sphinx and Azure Static Web Apps can get you started in just a few minutes.

History of .NET/Mono/Xamarin

Open sourcing .NET Core and acquisition of Xamarin are the latest milestones Microsoft has reached in the past few years for .NET/Mono/Xamarin communities to celebrate. Ever since Microsoft debut .NET platform in June 2000, this ecosystem has been evolving rapidly and empowering more categories of applications than its original ambition. This session offers an overview that covers the history of .NET Framework and its Mono/Xamarin siblings, and also attempts to give some prediction on the future.

First delivered on Sep 13, 2017 at Montreal Mobile .NET Developers user group. Aired on Jan 17, 2018 as part of MVPDays Virtual Conference 2017.

Extending VSCode: Write Your Own Language Server in VSCode

Visual Studio Code has become the most popular tool to write code in recent years. It supports most mainstream languages, and that list keeps expanding. In this course, you’ll learn what is a language server. Next, you’ll see what capabilities can be implemented in the language server to enrich end user experience. Finally, you’ll learn how to build your own language extension with such a language server, and publish it to the marketplace. When you finish this course, you will have a solid understanding of Language Server Protocol and its usage in Visual Studio Code, providing you the skill set to extend your favorite text editor with new languages.

First aired on Aug 20, 2020 at Microsoft Reactor Toronto.

Extending VSCode: How to Build Your First Extensions

A hands-on session on how to write VSCode extensions. Will demonstrate how to write new themes and extensions with more functionalities.

Aired on May 3, 2022 at Microsoft Reactor Toronto.

Extending VSCode: Build Documentation with Python Sphinx

A hands-on session to illustrate the rich ecosystem around Python Sphinx tools and how to build up any kind of documentation for your projects.

Aired on May 10, 2022 at Microsoft Reactor Toronto.

History of Artificial Intelligence and Overview of Microsoft Azure AI Services

An overview of AI research history and introduction of Microsoft Azure services related to AI.

Aired on Mar 16, 2023 at Pie & AI: Azure AI Showcase, Toronto.