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Building Bots with Microsoft Bot Framework

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Product type Book
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463104
Pages 424 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Kishore Gaddam Kishore Gaddam
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters close

Preface 1. Setting up Microsoft Bot Framework Dev Environment 2. Developing Your First Bot Using the Connector and Builder SDK 3. Developing WeatherBot Using Dialogs and LUIS 4. Natural Speech and Intent Processing Bot Using Microsoft Cognitive Services 5. Developing Bots Using LUIS Prompt Dialogs with State and Nearby Bot Using Custom APIs 6. Developing an IVR Bot for a Bank Using Advanced Microsoft Bot Framework Technologies 7. Intelligent Bots with Microsoft Bot Framework and Service Fabric 8. Developing Intelligent Facial Expression Identification Bot for IoT Using Azure and Power BI 9. Publishing a Bot to Skype, Slack, Facebook, and the GroupMe Channel

Developing your first bot

The Microsoft Bot Framework allows developers to develop code once and, using the Microsoft Bot Connector, deploy it onto multiple channels, including SMS, Slack, Facebook Messenger, Skype, GroupMe, and many other channels:

Figure 1: Various channels available in the Microsoft Bot Framework

The Microsoft Bot Framework has three main components:

  • Bot Connector: This allows you to easily connect your bot to Slack or Skype, via SMS or the web
  • Bot Builder SDK: An SDK that allows you to develop bots using C# .NET or Node.js, which is open source
  • Bot Directory: A collection of all approved bots connected through the Bot Connector; it is a marketplace where users can search for bots to add in their chat applications
It's really important for Visual Studio to be updated in order to use the Bot Directory, as well as download the web tools in the Visual Studio setup. Update all VS extensions...
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