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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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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

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

How to use dialogs in bot applications

Now, we will see how to use dialogs for the same Hello World bot application.

Dialogs will be used in a conversational process, where there is an interaction or exchange of messages between the user and the bot. Each dialog is an abstraction that encapsulates its own state in a C# class that implements IDialog. To work with dialogs, we need to import the Microsoft.Bot.Builder.Dialogs namespace. Add a C# class HelloWorldDialog into your project. To add a class, right-click on your project and navigate to Add | Class... from the menu:

Figure 16: Using Visual Studio IDE to add a new class to an existing project

Give the Name as HelloWorldDialog:

Figure 17: Using Visual Studio IDE to name a new class

In order to change the Hello World example, add the following code in HelloWorldDialog. To use the Bot Builder, we first need to import the required namespace:

using Microsoft.Bot...
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