The Microsoft Bot Framework (preview), framework enables organizations to build intelligent agents, known as Bots.

The Framework provides developers with a developer portal and SDK to build Bots, a Bot Connector service to connect to social channels such as Twitter and Slack, and a Bot Directory to discover and use existing bots.

Bots (or conversation agents) are rapidly becoming an integral part of your digital experience.

Getting Started with BOT

Firstly, you have to download and extract the Bot template,

System Requirements

• Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 or Visual Studio 2017.
• Bot Emulator (Downloaded from the Website).

You can download from the following links

• Bot Template — http://aka.ms/bf-bc-vstemplate:
• Bot Emulator — http://emulator.botframework.com/
• Visual Studio — https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/

Once Bot Template downloaded copy the Zip file to following location

The Visual Studio 2017 project templates directory is typically located here:

 

 

%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Visual Studio 2017\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#\

Open Bot Template

 

 

As usual open New Project in Visual Studio and go to Templates >> Visual C#

In the bottom you can find the template named Bot Application

Give a meaningful name and click on OK

Interface of Bot

 

 

Bot Interface is not like other interfaces it won’t show anything until you open something

In the Solution Explorer bar you can see some kind of files

 

 

Installing Bot Emulator

Once bot emulator is downloaded from the web just double clicked on it, it will start installing

 

 

 

 

Bot Emulator will looks like this

Until we developed a error free program we won’t be able to see anything here

Configuring Dev.Bot

Once everything finished locally if you are trying to upload your bot and connect with the channels you have to configure the web site also

Direct to https://dev.botframework.com/ and sign in with your Microsoft account, once done Click on Create Bot

It will direct to the following site https://dev.botframework.com/bots/new

 

 

Display Name — Your Bot Name

Handle — Used in the URL for your bot. Alphanumeric and underscore only. Cannot be changed once registered.

If you are trying to develop for your web site Message Endpoint URL will be there

 

 

And Microsoft App ID and Password is necessary to use this app globally if you are debugging locally it’s not necessary to get those.

Generate Microsoft App ID & Password

 

 

App Name — Meaningful Name of your Bot

App ID- Automatically generated by Microsoft

 

 

Click on the Generate App password to continue

New Password will be generated online.

Click on OK

Once all finished click on Agree and Register you Bot

 

 

Thanking you, Happy Coding