A good way to get ideas and some coding best practice is to look at some examples, there are many of them using C# hosted on GitHub here. I wanted to walk through what they are so I can for myself find or discover some new ideas and best practices for this, as I am […]
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1000 must have utterances for your chatbot using LUIS
My #chatbot is intended only to be pleasant, not to be philosophical or answer complicated political or social questions. As companies create #chatbot to serve a purpose, they should also maintain a level of fun and make sure the #chatbot has at least a limited personality. Utterances are questions which can be or have been […]
Read More →Port limit for an Azure App Service
Ever wondered how to check the number of open connections on a App Service Web App or Mobile App? Have you ever received this error while running your App Service? System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: “A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host […]
Read More →Moving an Azure App Service
I like keeping my things in order, so over time as my Azure consumption grows, I begin to recognize and learn that maybe I should have put all the related resources into the same resource group. Here is an example of how I moved an App Service Web app from one resource group to another. […]
Read More →Most common chatbot questions and how to answer them
If you haven’t heard about #chatbots #chatbot then consider yourself lucky to have found this page because you are about to learn about them. They will soon be everywhere and are actually very helpful for answering a majority of questions. The problem I want to resolve is the baseline, in that there needs to be […]
Read More →Memory metrics for an Azure Web App and App Service Plan
Did you ever wonder why memory utilization for a Web App is different than the memory utilization of the App Service Plan, as shown in Figure 1? The App Service Plan in thei example is a SMALL BASIC mode machine. Average memory is 50.68MB which is about ~2.8% of the 1.75GB available for a SMALL […]
Read More →Create a Bot using an Azure App Service Bot Service
I am so excited about Bots (#Bot) that I can barely control myself. My hands are literally shaking as I write this post. I wrote this post a few months ago that discuses how I got started using the Bot Framework (#BotFramework) with LUIS, it was a little complicated but now with the built in […]
Read More →Capture and Analyze Brain Waves using Azure
I wrote this article for the November 2016 MSDN Magazine, it is part one of a two part series. Part two is coming next month, December 2016. Part one of the article covers: The configuration of Emotiv SDK The configuration of the Azure IoT Hub Part two of the article covers the remaining topics: Creating […]
Read More →How (I) connected a console application to a Web API protected by an Azure Active Directory
The code can be downloaded from here or on GitHub. I wrote this post here where I discussed how I configured Azure Active Directory into one of my Azure App Service Web Apps. One of the main differences between that post and what I am trying to do here was realized when I received this […]
Read More →Deploy an App Service using Azure PowerShell to a Deployment Slot
I wrote an article here that explains how to install Azure PowerShell and to check what version it is. A trend that I am seeing is the we tend to create the capabilities to make modifications to an Azure feature and exposed the interface. Then we create a PowerShell cmdlet and then later it gets […]
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