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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)

Configure Direct Line Channel

To call the bot from the IoT application, we need to configure Direct Line channel. Let's perform the following steps to do that:

  1. Go to dev.botframework.com, click on the My Bots section, and select your bot:
  1. Under the Channels section, click on the Add option of the Direct Line channel. It opens a configuration page:
  1. On the Direct Line configuration page, click on the Add New Site option and add a name:
  1. Next, copy the primary secret key we will use in later steps, as shown in the following figure, and finally click on I am done configuring Direct Line:

Next, you need to develop a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app for Raspberry Pi2.