Category: Open Source

Develop an AI agent with Microsoft Agent Framework

You may have noticed that in my previous articles I used Azure AI Projects client library for Python – version 2.5.0 library.  Those articles illustrate how to build AI Agents, MCP Tools, and infer instructions using an LLM. Integrate custom tools into an AI Agent Integrate MCP Tools with AI Agents – Remote MCP server […]

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How to search a Lucene.Net index in C#

I used this code to perform a search of a Lucene.Net index. Lucene.Net.Store..Directory directory =      Lucene.Net.Store.FSDirectory                .Open(new DirectoryInfo(textBoxSearchIndex.Text)); Lucene.Net.Analysis.Analyzer analyzer =      new Lucene.Net.Analysis.Standard                    .StandardAnalyzer(LuceneUtil.Version.LUCENE_29); Lucene.Net.Search.Searcher searcher =      new Lucene.Net.Search                .IndexSearcher(LuceneIndex.IndexReader                                          .Open(directory, true)); Lucene.Net.Search.Query query =      new Lucene.Net.QueryParsers                .QueryParser(LuceneUtil.Version.LUCENE_29,                             “contents”, analyzer)                             .Parse(textBoxSearch.Text); Lucene.Net.Search.Hits hits = […]

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Lucene.NET returns results only when using numeric values

Benjamin Perkins Lucene.NET

I used this code to create a Lucene.Net 2.9.2 index. System.IO.DirectoryInfo indexFileLocation = new System.IO.DirectoryInfo(textBox1.Text); Lucene.Net.Store.Directory directory = Lucene.Net.Store.FSDirectory.Open(indexFileLocation); Lucene.Net.Analysis.Analyzer analyzer = new Lucene.Net .Analysis .Standard .StandardAnalyzer(LuceneUtil.Version.LUCENE_29); IndexWriter writer = new IndexWriter(directory, analyzer, true, IndexWriter.MaxFieldLength.UNLIMITED); foreach (IList item in dataToIndex) { Document doc = new Document(); doc.Add(new Field(“ID”, item[0].ToString(), Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.NO)); …. string contents = […]

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How to delete a Docker image

I was able to remove some of my unwanted images by accessing my Docker Cloud account here.  As seen in Figure 1, navigate to your repositories, click on those dots, a delete popup is rendered. Figure 1, how to delete a docker image repository I write this because when I searched all I found was […]

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Kali Linux for Windows

This is pretty cool as I am very interested in this specific flavor of Linux.  I have installed it and it’s very cool.  You can down load this from the Microsoft Store. Then search for “Kali” and install it. Here is the description: “The Kali for Windows application allows one to install and run the […]

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