How to Create a Cognitive Services APIs account in the Azure portal | Step by step setup

Steps to Create a Cognitive Services APIs account in the Azure portalSetting details

Step 1:-  First we need to create an azure account (free of cost|trial of 30 days), which i’m sure you can sign up for from here.

Once you created your account, sign into it from http://portal.azure.com/.

It’ll look somewhat like this:-

Step 2:- Click new and search “cognitive services”

Click Create

Step 3:- Select details as below:

Select pricing tier as free(1st one)

Select Resource group as “create new” or select use existing if you already have one and click create.

Step 4:- Once created, it’ll be visible under all resources. Click on it to open it:

Step 5:- Copy API url and key details of your API

In above 5 steps, your azure cognitive service api setup is completed.

Copied url and accountid/key will be used going forward in creating a connection to azure cognitive service.

Helper Code of Dynamics CRM 365 in C#

Code to connect CRM Organization (C#):

ClientCredentials clientCredentials = new ClientCredentials();

clientCredentials.UserName.UserName = "<Username>";

clientCredentials.UserName.Password = "<Password>";

ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = SecurityProtocolType.Tls12;

IOrganizationService organizationService = new OrganizationServiceProxy(new Uri("<CRM Organisation Service URL>"),

null, clientCredentials, null);