Friday Five: A Bot For Smart Homes, Windows 10 IoT Core, And More!

Complex Joins .NET Core 2.0 Entity Framework And SQL Server

Oscar Garcia is a Principal Software Architect who resides in Sunny South Florida. He is a Microsoft MVP and certified solutions developer with many years of experience building solutions using .Net framework and multiple open source frameworks. Currently, he specializes in building solutions using technologies like SharePoint, ASP.NET, NodeJS, AngularJS, and other JavaScript frameworks. Follow him on Twitter @ozkary or visit his blog at ozkary.com.  

Microsoft Cognitive Services Demo On Windows 10 IoT Core

Jiong Shi has been a Microsoft MVP for nine years, and is interested in Windows 10 IoT Core, Windows Embedded, Azure IoT and UWP. He is an associate professor at the School of Computer and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang Wanli University, China. He is an author of the book “Windows 10 IoT Application Developer Guide”, a blogger, and speaker for Ignite China. Jiong is active in local developer community, speaking at technical conferences, writing articles on hackster, contributing to Windows IoT Core open-source projects, and  serving as a mentor and Microsoft Community Contributor. Follow him on Twitter @dearsj001.

"Homie" - A Language Understanding Bot For Smart Homes

A couple of years ago Stephan Bisser started to dive into the MS cloud stack (O365 & Azure). He started as a SharePoint System Specialist at SOLVION where he started to set up and design SharePoint farms from an infrastructure perspective and now is a Technical Lead for all cloud infrastructure services and projects.Stephan's new passion, however, is Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the complete Microsoft AI ecosystem. This is why he is trying to put as much intelligence in form of Cognitive Services and Azure Bot Services into business services like Office 365 and others to make it even better and smarter.Since April 2018, Stephan is also awarded as a Microsoft MVP for Artificial Intelligence, due to his contributions in this specific area. Follow him on Twitter @ cloudguy_pro.

ASP.NET Core Blazor CRUD Using Entity Framework And Web API

Syed Shanu is a Microsoft MVP, a two-time C# MVP and two-time Code project MVP. Syed is also an author, blogger and speaker. He's from Madurai, India, and works as Technical Lead in South Korea. With more than 10 Years of experience with Microsoft technologies, Syed is an active person in the community and always happy to share his knowledge on topics related to ASP.NET, MVC, ASP.NET Core, Web API, SQL Server, UWP, Azure, among others. He has written more than 70 articles on various technologies. He's also a several-time TechNet Guru Gold Winner. You can see his contributions to MSDN and TechNet Wiki here. Follow him on Twitter @syedshanu3.

Building A Real-Time News Feed With SharePoint Framework And Webhooks

Giuliano De Luca is a Microsoft Office Development MVP. He is passionate about hi job, likes to collaborate with the community, and  is a specialist in Microsoft technologies focused on Office 365. During his career has achieved several Microsoft certifications he is also a blogger and international speaker. Giuliano is working in Germany (in the Stuttgart area) and  he is an active contributor to the community through his his blog, GitHub and social media. Follow him on Twitter @ giuleon