The different types of Dialog you can create include Regardless of your choice of approach between these options, the SDK allows you to create Dialog classes, which model the conversations your bot can have with the outside world. The SDK portion of the framework gives you what you need to actually build bots that are based on .NET / C#, Node.js or a REST API. The Bot Framework consists of 3 major components. Bots can be surfaced through a number of popular channels
These tools provide developers with all of the underpinnings that every bot needs, such as basic interaction (input / output) as well as dialog and language capabilities. The framework also allows you to surface your bots in the places that they are already having conversations, such as Facebook Messenger, Skype, Slack, web chat, Office 365 mail, SMS / text and more common services. The Microsoft Bot Framework is a suite of tools and resources designed to help and empower developers to make creating the type of conversational chat bots I mentioned above. OK…got it…so what is the Microsoft Bot Framework? It just feels better.īots are now popping up everywhere, from Facebook to Twitter and many more platforms. This is probably, for me, the best thing about modern bots in that they can be so much more natural and engaging. Previously we might have completed a form online or used an app, but now using a bot we could just say, “I would like 2 x hot curry and some poppadoms delivered to 17 Cheery Tree Lane”, and the bot would understand that we wanted 2 portions of curry, hot, with poppadoms and to have them delivered to Cherry Tree Lane. Think about ordering some take-out food, specifying your order and your address without needing to speak to anyone. There are differing definitions of what a bot is (and if you were expecting me to say that they are the larva of the botfly, then you’re probably on the wrong page), but they way I like to think about them (in the context of what we can create with the Bot Framework) is an application that can carry out automated tasks or provide information to a user based on their input, but with the user being able to interact with the bot in the same way they might interact with another human. As I have been working with the framework for a couple of months now since it was announced. This post is intended to give you a bird’s eye view of what the Bot Framework is and what you can do with it, with me going into more granular details in later posts. Back at the end of March, at their annual Build conference, Microsoft announced the Bot Framework.
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