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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we have learned the following:

  • Registering a bot: Once registered, we use the dashboard to test the bot to ensure that it is talking to the connector service and/or use the web chat control, and an auto-configured channel, to experience what users will experience when conversing with the bot
  • Connecting to channels: Connect the bot to the conversation channels such as Skype, Slack, and/or Facebook Messenger using the channel configuration page
  • Testing bot: Test the bot's connection to the Bot Framework and try it out using the web chat control
  • Publishing bot: We get to publish the bot
  • Measuring bot: We get to learn how to link the bot to Azure Application Insights analytics directly from the bot dashboard in the Bot Framework website
  • Managing a bot: Once registered and connected to channels, we can manage the bot via the bot's dashboard in the Bot Framework Developer Portal
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