Getting Started with BOT Framework
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
