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Building Bots with Microsoft Bot Framework

By : Kishore Gaddam
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Building Bots with Microsoft Bot Framework

By: Kishore Gaddam

Overview of this book

Bots help users to use the language as a UI and interact with the applications from any platform. This book teaches you how to develop real-world bots using Microsoft Bot Framework. The book starts with setting up the Microsoft Bot Framework development environment and emulator, and moves on to building the first bot using Connector and Builder SDK. Explore how to register, connect, test, and publish your bot to the Slack, Skype, and Facebook Messenger platforms. Throughout this book, you will build different types of bots from simple to complex, such as a weather bot, a natural speech and intent processing bot, an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) bot for a bank, a facial expression recognition bot, and more from scratch. These bots were designed and developed to teach you concepts such as text detection, implementing LUIS dialogs, Cortana Intelligence Services, third-party authentication, Rich Text format, Bot State Service, and microServices so you can practice working with the standard development tools such as Visual Studio, Bot Emulator, and Azure.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

Summary

In this chapter, we discussed how to build a bot by locally deploying a simple Hello World bot application. You also learned about Visual Studio, C# .NET, the Bot Framework, and the related technologies along with all the steps for creating projects. We also discussed the bot emulator and how it relates to bot development. In the next chapter, we will see how to develop a fully functional weather bot. Also, we will learn about how the bot communicates about the current weather in a given city. You will learn how the bot interacts with Skype or any other channel to know the current weather.