Key Features

• Develop various real-world intelligent bots from scratch using Microsoft Bot Framework
• Integrate your bots with most popular conversation platforms such as Skype, Slack, and Facebook Messenger
• Flaunt your bot building skills in your organization by thoroughly understanding and implementing the bot development concepts such as messages (rich text and pictures), dialogs, and third-party authentication and calling

Book Description

This book starts with setting up the Microsoft Bot Framework development environment and emulator, and quickly moves on to building the first bot using Connector and Builder SDK. You will 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 as you progress, 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.

What you will learn

• Set up a development environment and install all the required software to get started programming a bot
• Publish a bot to Slack, Skype, and the Facebook Messenger platform
• Develop a fully functional weather bot that communicates the current weather in a given city
• Help your bot identify the intents of a text with the help of LUIS, in order to make decisions
• Integrate an API into your bot development
• Build an IVR solution
• Explore the concept of MicroServices and see how MicroServices can be used in bot development
• Develop an IoT project, deploy it, and connect it to a bot