As we all know, Microsoft Build 2024 took place on May 21- 23 at the luminous Summit building of the Seattle Convention Center. Syncfusion, too, participated in the conference and showcased our Essential Studio® and SAAS products.
The key focus of Microsoft Build 2024 was how AI will shape your future. In 307 sessions held over three days, around 620 speakers shared their knowledge about the latest trends in AI.
Our Syncfusion team also attended various sessions. In this blog, we’ll share what our team members learned from some of the sessions we attended at Microsoft Build 2024.
Azure AI Studio is a powerful platform offering seamless management, automation, and advanced AI tools. Its dual development approach, combining a user-friendly UI and code-first capabilities, allows flexibility in workflow even if our requirements are complex.
Azure AI Studio provides access to the latest foundation models through Models as a service (MaaS), simplifying the creation of generative AI apps. The platform’s comprehensive AI toolchain supports data integration, prompt orchestration, and system evaluation. Features like tracing, debugging, and monitoring enhance workflow insights and ensure continuous improvement.
As part of our continuous effort to enhance our Syncfusion HelpBot, which is developed using LangChain, the features and advantages of Azure AI Studio have inspired us to plan a migration to this robust platform.
During the session on C# 13 at the Microsoft Build Conference, presented by Mads Torgersen and Dustin Campbell, several impactful features were introduced, all revolving around enhancing developer productivity and code efficiency:
These features simplify and enhance the C# development experience, providing developers with more powerful and intuitive tools to write cleaner and more efficient code.
Note: For more details, refer to What’s New in C# 13.
At Syncfusion, we are excited about the recent Microsoft announcements regarding WinUI 3 and WPF, which offer significant advantages for us and our customers.
In just 15 minutes, Michael created an app that targeted web, mobile, and desktop platforms and integrated an intelligent chatbot into it using Syncfusion controls.
This kind of assistant can help small organizations search through their information by file search instead of costly options like a database search. Also, the users appreciated that this Blazor app was also built as a .NET MAUI hybrid app so it can be deployed in Android, iOS, and Windows.
This session shared tips like following RESTful principles, implementing security measures, using OpenAPI and Swagger tools, optimizing microservices with gRPC, and more.
This virtual talk showed how to use Syncfusion Blazor components and GPT-3.5 Turbo to build an AI-powered content composer.
This session showed how to create a plugin for Copilot using an ordinary REST service, VS Code, and Teams Toolkit.
Throughout this demo, Bob German took TreyResearch consulting company, a fictitious one, as an example and built an API service that has certain endpoints to get and post details. With Devproxy, the request calls to the API service through Postman can be recorded to provide as much data as possible to LLM to generate an appropriate response by Copilot plugin when added through Teams Toolkit in VS Code to integrate into Microsoft Teams.
This session introduced the API to utilize the AI functionality in the client browser.
WebNN allows web browsers and progressive web apps to run AI inference directly on the client’s CPU, GPU, and NPU. It integrates with ML frameworks like ONNX RT to use native capabilities such as Microsoft DirectML on Windows, enhancing AI performance and efficiency on AI PCs.
Along with the ones mentioned above, we’ve also attended the following sessions:
Note: For more details, refer to the Microsoft Build 2024 sessions catalog.
Thanks for reading! Microsoft Build 2024 was a pivotal event where Syncfusion not only showcased its products but also gained invaluable insights into the future of AI and software development. From Azure AI Studio’s robust capabilities to the innovative features of C# 13 and the advancements in WinUI and WPF, the conference highlighted the rapid evolution of technology and its impact on developers and businesses alike. With our team members actively participating in sessions and absorbing knowledge on topics like AI integration in web development and building plugins for Copilot, Syncfusion remains committed to enhancing our products and supporting developers in creating cutting-edge solutions. As we look ahead, these learnings will guide us in delivering even more powerful tools and frameworks that empower developers worldwide.
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