The Bot Directory is where the user will be able to find bots. It's like an App Store for mobile apps. The Bot Directory is a public directory of all the reviewed bots registered through the developer portal. Users will be able to discover, try, and add bots to their favorite conversation experiences from the Bot Directory. Anyone can access it and can submit bots to the directory.
As you begin your development with the Microsoft Bot Framework, you might be wondering how best to get started. Bots can be built in C#; however, Microsoft's Bot Framework can also be used to build bots using Node.js. For developing any bots, we need to first set up the development environment and have the right tools installed for successfully developing and deploying a bot. Let's see how we can set up a development environment using Visual Studio.