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Building Bots with Microsoft Bot Framework

You're reading from   Building Bots with Microsoft Bot Framework Creating intelligent conversational interfaces

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463104
Length 424 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kishore Gaddam Kishore Gaddam
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Preface 1. Setting up Microsoft Bot Framework Dev Environment FREE CHAPTER 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

Development of WeatherBot code

We have completed setting up LUIS. Now let's develop a bot for knowing the weather of a given geography. We will also see how LUIS can help us in identifying the geography of a given sentence.

This guide is for C# using the Bot Framework Connector SDK .NET template:

  1. Open Visual Studio and navigate to New | Project:
  1. Select Visual C# from the left-hand side template category. From the templates section, you will see the Bot Application template:
  1. Select the Bot Application template, name the project WeatherBot, and then click on OK:
  1. Select the MessagesController.cs file, which is located under the Controllers folder:
  1. Update the Post method to call the Dialogs. For that, add a class called WeatherDialog.cs in to your solution and extend it with IDialog. For that, you have to right-click on your project and select Add | Class...:
  1. Extend the class with IDialog, implement...

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