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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)

Bots are evolving

A bot is a piece of software designed to automate a specific task. When talked about in the context of conversation as a platform, a bot becomes the chat interface of a regular app. So, you should allow tasks that require full UI to be performed by the user only through conversation. We are at the early stages of a major evolving technology trend: the rise of conversation bots. Conversation bots can read and write messages just like a human would. Users will be able to interact with bots just as they interact with other humans using natural language.

Skype, WeChat, Kik, Facebook, GroupMe, Slack, Telegram, and so on are emerging conversation platforms, which help us in enabling interactions with any service from within the conversation platform. All these platforms enable developers to build conversation bots to provide a specific service. We can program bots to carry out specific automated actions...