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Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services

Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services

By : Leif Larsen Henning Larsen
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Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services

Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services

By: Leif Larsen Henning Larsen

Overview of this book

Microsoft Cognitive Services is a set of APIs for integrating artificial intelligence in your applications to solve logical business problems. If you’re new to developing applications with AI, Learning Microsoft Cognitive Services will give you a comprehensive introduction to Microsoft’s AI stack and get you up-to-speed in no time. The book introduces you to 24 APIs, including Emotion, Language, Vision, Speech, Knowledge, and Search. Using Visual Studio, you can develop applications with enhanced capabilities for image processing, speech recognition, text processing, and much more. Moving forward, you will work with datasets that enable your applications to process various data in the form of image, video, or text. By the end of the book, you’ll be able to confidently explore Cognitive Services APIs for building intelligent applications that can be deployed for real-world business uses.
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Searching the web using the smart-house application


The Bing Web Search API provides us with a search experience similar to what we find at http://bing.com/search. It returns results that are relevant to any queries.

A response for any request to this API will contain web pages, images, videos, and news articles. In a typical scenario, this is the API you would use for any of these searches.

Note that, in a real-life scenario, all requests should be made from a server-side application, not from a client, as we do in this example.

Note

If you have not already done so, sign up for the Bing Web Search API at https://portal.azure.com. You can read more on the API at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/cognitive-services/bing-web-search-api/.

Preparing the application for web searches

Before diving into the required technicalities for web searches, we are going to prepare our smart-house application.

Add a new View in the Views folder called BingSearchView.xaml. At the very least, this should...

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