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Tips of Building Custom Action in Bot Framework Composer V2

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freistli
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May 06, 2022
Custom Action is the important method to extend Bot App functionalities through C# in Bot Framework Composer for the low code bot solution. Using it, we can create complicated actions for our bots, i...
Updated May 06, 2022
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Mar 29, 2023

Thanks freistli. This works well, much appreciated.

 

Do you know if there's a way to access bot settings in the custom action project?

 

https://github.com/microsoft/BotFramework-Composer/issues/4723 suggests that we just need 

var botSettings = dc.Parent.State.GetValue("settings");

 

However if I try that in Visual Studio 2022 I get https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/misc/cs0411?f1url=%3FappId%3Droslyn%26k%3Dk(CS0411) "Type arguments cannot be inferred from usage". Wondering if this is something you've come across.