Outdated content, again: Exercise - Translate text with the Azure AI Translator service

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The content of page 'Exercise - Translate text with the Azure AI Translator service' is very outdated. It largely does not work as-is and needs to be updated. I keep on finding such pages. I don't know Microsoft does not update these more often. Doesn't Microsoft want more developers to learn about how their AI offerings/products work?

Exercise URL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/training/modules/translate-text-with-translator-service/6-exercise-translate-text

I have rewritten the incorrect code to reflect the latest Azure.AI.Translation.Text NuGet package:

using Azure;

using Azure.AI.Translation.Text;

using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration;

using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Text;

using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace translate_text

{

class Program

{

static async Task Main(string[] args)

{

try

{

// Set console encoding to unicode

Console.InputEncoding = Encoding.Unicode;

Console.OutputEncoding = Encoding.Unicode;

// Get config settings from AppSettings

IConfigurationBuilder builder = new ConfigurationBuilder().AddJsonFile("appsettings.json");

IConfigurationRoot configuration = builder.Build();

string translatorRegion = configuration["TranslatorRegion"];

string translatorKey = configuration["TranslatorKey"];

// Create client using endpoint and key

AzureKeyCredential credential = new(translatorKey);

TextTranslationClient client = new(credential, translatorRegion);

// Choose target language

Response<GetSupportedLanguagesResult> languagesResponse = await client.GetSupportedLanguagesAsync(scope: "translation");

GetSupportedLanguagesResult languages = languagesResponse.Value;

Console.WriteLine($"{languages.Translation.Count} languages available.\n(See https://learn.microsoft.com/azure/ai-services/translator/language-support#translation)");

Console.WriteLine("Enter a target language code for translation (for example, 'en'):");

string targetLanguage = "";

bool languageSupported = false;

while (!languageSupported && string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(targetLanguage))

{

targetLanguage = Console.ReadLine();

if (languages.Translation.ContainsKey(targetLanguage))

{

languageSupported = true;

}

else

{

Console.WriteLine($"{targetLanguage} is not a supported language.");

}

}

// Translate text

string inputText = "";

while (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(inputText) && inputText.ToLower() != "quit")

{

Console.WriteLine("Enter text to translate ('quit' to exit)");

inputText = Console.ReadLine();

if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(inputText) && inputText.ToLower() != "quit")

{

Response<IReadOnlyList<TranslatedTextItem>> translationResponse = await client.TranslateAsync(targetLanguage, inputText);

IReadOnlyList<TranslatedTextItem> translations = translationResponse.Value;

TranslatedTextItem translation = translations[0];

string sourceLanguage = translation?.DetectedLanguage?.Language;

Console.WriteLine($"'{inputText}' translated from {sourceLanguage} to {translation?.Translations[0].TargetLanguage} as '{translation?.Translations?[0]?.Text}'.");

}

}

}

catch (Exception ex)

{

Console.WriteLine(ex.Message);

}

}

}

}

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Answer 1

Hi Michael G,
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