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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)

Develop an UWP app for Raspberry Pi device

A UWP app is responsible for collecting sensor data, which means it captures a photo of a person and sends it to the bot, and the bot will process it and send back the results to the Raspberry Pi2. The processed results will be sent to IoT Hub.

Create an UWP App project

Now, let's take a look at the steps we need to follow to create the UWP app:

  1. Open Visual Studio and create a new project by selecting Universal app as Universal | Blank App template, as follows:
  1. After the successful creation of the project, right-click on the Project and select the Add Reference option from the menu.
  1. Next, from Reference Manager windows select the Extensions category under Universal Windows and then select Windows IoT Extensions...