Chris Coulson's Developer Notes

Demonstrating Microsoft’s Semantic Kernel

Chris Coulson — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 04:24:01 +0000

In this video I describe what’s Microsoft’s Semantic Kernel is all about, how it works and I show a demonstration of the semantic kernel in action, using a planner and a math plugin.

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Azure OpenAI Service vs OpenAI API

Chris Coulson — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 19:06:46 +0000

Azure OpenAI Service is Azure’s offering of OpenAI’s AI models via a REST API. They offer the same models, and even the REST API is almost identical, so we’ll be exploring the differences and any pros/cons between the two offerings. According to Microsoft: Azure offers access to the same latest versions of models that OpenAI does. It doesn’t offer access to some of the older/deprecated models.

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SharePoint FBA: SSL Required

Chris Coulson — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 19:00:26 +0000

Recent changes in Chrome to improve cookie security required flags being set on the cookies in order for them to continue to function cross-domain. Microsoft released patches to SharePoint to implement the flags – however the flags also require the cookie to be marked SECURE and now only allows the cookies to function with HTTPS/SSL. Granted you should only be using FBA in production with SSL...

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SQL Server Spatial Data: Finding and Ordering Distance Between 2 Points

Chris Coulson — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 06:20:31 +0000

It’s pretty common to want to find the distance from a certain location to a location stored in your database. For example, in the Home Depot or Walmart website you might want to find the closest store. The locations of all of the stores will be stored in a database, and then given your location the distance to each store can be calculated and ordered by the closest stores.

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Now Hosting Inline Styler for Emails

Chris Coulson — Sat, 20 Jan 2018 00:46:22 +0000

We’ve been using this great inline styler for email’s created by @davecranwell (originally hosted at http://inlinestyler.torchbox.com). Unfortunately it’s been offline for about a month, so today I setup hosting for it. It can now be found at: https://inlinestyler.visigo.com/. What it does is take HTML + CSS and moves the css styles inline in the html. This is used for formatting html emails...

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SharePoint 2016 compatible version of the SharePoint Solution Installer released

Chris Coulson — Sat, 18 Nov 2017 15:11:36 +0000

I’ve updated the SharePoint Solution Installer to be compatible with SharePoint 2016. Release can be downloaded here: https://github.com/Visigo/sharepointinstaller/releases/tag/SharePointInstaller-SP2013-V1.5.0...

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Configuring Forms Based Authentication in SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint 2019 – Part 4 – Adding Users to the Membership Database

Chris Coulson — Thu, 19 May 2016 05:07:09 +0000

Configuring forms based authentication (FBA) in SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint 2019 is exactly the same process as configuring it for SharePoint 2013. I’ve recreated the SharePoint 2013 FBA tutorial specifically for SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint 2019, using screenshots from SharePoint 2016 and Windows Server 2012 R2. I have changed the tutorial to use the SharePoint FBA Pack to create the FBA...

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Configuring Forms Based Authentication in SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint 2019 – Part 3 – Configuring SharePoint

Chris Coulson — Thu, 19 May 2016 05:05:57 +0000

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Configuring Forms Based Authentication in SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint 2019 – Part 2 – Editing the Web.Config Files

Chris Coulson — Thu, 19 May 2016 05:05:37 +0000

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Configuring Forms Based Authentication in SharePoint 2016, SharePoint 2019 and SharePoint Subscription Edition – Part 1 – Creating the Membership Database

Chris Coulson — Thu, 19 May 2016 05:05:19 +0000

Configuring forms based authentication (FBA) in SharePoint 2016, SharePoint 2019 and SharePoint Subscription Edition is exactly the same process as configuring it for SharePoint 2013. I’ve recreated the SharePoint 2013 FBA tutorial specifically for SharePoint 2016, SharePoint 2019 and SharePoint Subscription Edition, using screenshots from SharePoint 2016 and Windows Server 2012 R2.

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