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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)

Employee Enroll bot using LUIS prompt dialogs

The following steps will guide you to create the Enroll bot:

  1. Login to https://www.luis.ai/; for more information on activating or signing up for Cognitive Services, check out Chapter 4, Natural Speech and Intent Processing Bot Using Microsoft Cognitive Services.
  1. Click on New App:
  1. On the New App drop-down menu, select New Application:
  1. It opens an Add a new application popup; enter the application name, the application usage scenario as Bot, and select the category related to your bot. Finally, click on the Add App button:
  1. The following application will be created:
  1. Our application will need to detect three entities, namely employee name (composed of first name and last name that we will define as children in the next steps), department, and location.
  2. To create these, click on the plus sign next to Entities:

  1. Enter Employee Name for the entity, then...