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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)

Developing Bots Using LUIS Prompt Dialogs with State and Nearby Bot Using Custom APIs

In this chapter, we will discuss and develop two bots. One is the Employee Enroll bot using LUIS prompt dialogs and the other is the Nearby Bot using custom APIs. Enroll bot is a basic employee registration kind of bot that will prompt users to enter their first name, last name, designation, and department. If any value is not supplied, then LUIS will prompt the user to enter the missing values. We will also discuss the implementation of bot state. Secondly, we will develop the Nearby Bot to know the attractions near you using a third-party API. So, let's get started.