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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 use cases

Let's look at some of the use cases where bots can enable users to have natural conversation to meet their needs:

  • We can develop some e-commerce bots that enable us to buy goods and services through Skype, Slack, Facebook, and any other conversation platforms
  • We can develop bots for restaurants to order food online or to make reservations at a restaurant
  • We can develop content bots that share relevant content with you (such as news and weather)
  • We can develop watcher/tracker bots that can notify us when specific events happen (such as when a flight is delayed, when your car needs servicing, and when your pizza order is ready for pickup)
  • We can develop banking and stock trading bots that can provide financial services
  • We can develop workflow bots that can automate business workflows in marketing, sales, operations, HR/admin, finance, payroll, and others
  • When it comes to the IoT domain, bots are...