Building Text-Grab with Joseph Finney
.NET Rocks!31 Elo 2021

Building Text-Grab with Joseph Finney

Learning by doing! Carl and Richard talk to Joseph Finney about his experiences building Text-Grab, a clever utility for extracting text from graphics using OCR built into Windows. Joe talks about how the 'search-with-screenshot' built into Windows 10 depends on Bing, but there is an OCR library inside Windows - why go to the cloud? The conversation dives into the challenges of handling multiple screens, screen resolutions, DPIs, language packs, and more... what seems like a simple tool is never that simple. And, as it turns out, building the app is the easy part: Now, how do you get it into the Microsoft Store? That leads to both Richard and Carl installing the app, showing that purchasing and installing an app is much harder than it needs to be!

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Uno Hot Design with Francois Tanguay and Sasha Krsmanovic

Uno Hot Design with Francois Tanguay and Sasha Krsmanovic

Ready to speed up your cross-platform development? Carl and Richard chat with Francois Tanguay and Sasha Krsmanovic about Uno Hot Design. First shown at .NET Conf in 2024, Hot Design brings the Hot Re...

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The Empowered Customer with Richard Reukema

The Empowered Customer with Richard Reukema

How do customers take control of their data from merchants? Carl and Richard chat with Richard Reukema about his book The Empowered Customer. Richard discusses building a data cooperative between cust...

13 Helmi 202556min

AI Extensions for .NET with Steve Sanderson

AI Extensions for .NET with Steve Sanderson

Can tooling make implementing AI features in your applications easier? Steve Sanderson says yes! Carl and Richard talk to Steve about the Microsoft.Extensions.AI preview toolset for OpenAI and oLlama....

6 Helmi 202553min

From Xamarin Forms to Blazor with Nathan Westfall

From Xamarin Forms to Blazor with Nathan Westfall

Ready for a migration story? Carl and Richard talk to Nathan Westfall about his experiences moving an application for school buses from Xamarin Forms to Blazor. Nathan describes the interplay between ...

30 Tammi 202551min

Microsoft Dev Box with Isaac Levin

Microsoft Dev Box with Isaac Levin

What's a Microsoft DevBox, and why do you want one? Carl and Richard talk to Isaac Levin about the power of DevBox to help you get up and running fast with a development project. Issac describes a vir...

23 Tammi 202551min

Viper.NET with Rob Conery

Viper.NET with Rob Conery

A visit from one of Scott Guthrie's Ninja Army! Carl and Richard chat with Rob Conery about his latest work with Microsoft technologies, including a VS Code extension for Copilot to understand Postgre...

16 Tammi 202555min

Architectural Intelligence with Thomas Betts

Architectural Intelligence with Thomas Betts

How is your architectural intelligence? Carl and Richard talk to Thomas Betts about his thoughts on implementing AI-related technologies into applications. Thomas talks about stripping the magic out o...

9 Tammi 202559min

Energy in 2024 Geek Out

Energy in 2024 Geek Out

It's a new year and time for an Energy Geek Out! Richard catches up on all the developments in energy generation over the past year, including solar, wind, wave, hydrogen, geothermal, nuclear, and mor...

2 Tammi 20252h 6min