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The models available in the Windows AI APIs have unlocked a whole new world of features: you can add chat to your apps, answer questions in natural language, describe images for accessibility,... The post Transforming an image into a table with Windows OCR first appeared on Bruno Sonnino .
In my last post, I talked about the new WCR APIs that are available for your Windows App SDK apps. When you take a look at the WCR Website and the AI... The post Adding AI in your WPF app first appeared on Bruno Sonnino .
The latest versions of the Windows App SDK (1.7 Experimental 3 and 1.8 Experimental 1) introduce a powerful new feature to elevate your apps: the Windows Copilot Runtime (WCR) APIs. This set... The post Adding AI in your apps with the Windows Copilot Runtime APIs first appeared on Bruno Sonnino .
ChatGPT has sparked a revolution in how we search and query the internet. At the same time, it brought an unexpected side effect: suddenly, AI became a necessity in every aspect of... The post AI Dev Gallery first appeared on Bruno Sonnino .
The release of ChatGPT in November 2022 introduced a revolution in the way we do things: from that date, we had an assistant that could help us in many tasks, like proofing... The post Creating a WinUI3 Chat application with the Phi-3 model with Semantic Kernel first appeared on Bruno Sonnino .
You are developing a new application and want it to be scalable: instead of having a single application with all the interactions, you want to develop it in a modular way, adding... The post Dynamic control loading in WinAppSDK apps first appeared on Bruno Sonnino .
You have an old WPF application that you would like to modernize, making its UI more up-to-date and in-line with Windows 11 theming. There are some ways to do it, and the... The post Modernizing your WPF application with the Fluent theme first appeared on Bruno Sonnino .
The latest experimental version of the WinAppSDK, version 1.6 experimental 2. brings a new control to WinUI 3: the titlebar. While you could customize your title bar in the previous versions, that... The post Customize the title bar of your WinUI3 app first appeared on Bruno Sonnino .
Introduction I've been writing blogs for a long time. My blogs are pretty simple; there isn't much formatting and the images I include are usually screenshots. There is some code, which I... The post Markdown Monster first appeared on Bruno Sonnino .
One feature that was missing in WPF was the OpenFolderDialog. To circumvent the lack of something to select a folder, there were some methods, but none of them were optimal: Use Windows... The post OpenFolderDialog in WPF first appeared on Bruno Sonnino .