Building Bots with Microsoft Bot Framework Creating intelligent conversational interfaces 1st Edition Kishore Gaddam

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

Setting up Microsoft Bot Framework Dev Environment

Conversation as a Service (CaaS)

Your bot

The Bot Connector

The Bot Directory

Setting up the development environment

Prerequisites

Setting up the Bot Framework Connector SDK .NET

Messages

Basic format

Rich text

Skype emoticons

Welcome messages

Pictures and videos

Cards and buttons

Hero card

Thumbnail card

Carousel

Images

Buttons

Actions

Sign in

Receipt

Groups

Calling

Summary

Developing Your First Bot Using the Connector and Builder SDK

Bots are evolving

Bots use cases

Developing your first bot

Creating our first bot

Building a bot using the C# SDK

AssemblyInfo.cs

References

Microsoft Bot Builder

Microsoft Bot Connector

WebApiConfig.cs

MessageController.cs

Default.htm

Global.asax

Packages.config

Web.config

Post method

BotID

Microsoft App ID

MicrosoftAppPassword

How to deploy and run the bot application in the Bot Framework emulator locally

How to use dialogs in bot applications

How to use FormFlow in the bot application

Summary

Developing WeatherBot Using Dialogs and LUIS

Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS)

Intents and Entities

Training your bot using utterances

Testing your LUIS app

Development of WeatherBot code

Calling LUIS from the bot

Calling the Weather API

Using cards

Natural speech and Intent processing bot using Microsoft Cognitive Services

Identifying the name of a person, place, and company using LUIS

Training your app

Calling LUIS from the bot

Summary

Natural Speech and Intent Processing Bot Using Microsoft Cognitive Services

Microsoft Cognitive Services

Signing up for Microsoft Cognitive Services

Building a bot application using Cognitive Services APIs

Analyzer’s results

Identifying the name of a person, place, and company using LUIS

Training your app using utterances

Calling LUIS from the bot

Summary

Developing Bots Using LUIS Prompt Dialogs with State and Nearby Bot Using Custom APIs

Employee Enroll bot using LUIS prompt dialogs

Training the service

Training and publishing

Creating the C# class for LUIS response

Creating the bot application

Bot state service

Creating a state client

Get/SetProperty methods

Updating your Post method

Updating your QueryLUIS method

Developing a Nearby Bot using custom APIs

Summary

Developing an IVR Bot for a Bank Using Advanced Microsoft Bot Framework Technologies

High-level architectural diagram

Let’s start coding

Creating an account with the bot

Storing the bot conversation (new account info) data in an Azure SQL database

Checking your savings account balance using the bot

Checking your current account balance using the bot

Paying your credit card bill using the bot

Deleting an account using the bot

Summary

Intelligent Bots with Microsoft Bot Framework and Service Fabric

Getting started using stateless microservices

Setting up your development environment for Service Fabric

Prerequisites

Installing the SDK and tools

Enabling PowerShell script execution

Creating a stateless Service Fabric web API

Publishing a Service Fabric project in Azure

Create Key Vault

Adding certificates to the Key Vault

Creating a cluster in the Azure portal

Summary

Developing Intelligent Facial Expression Identification Bot for IoT Using Azure and Power BI

Before getting started

Configuring Raspberry Pi and sensors

Prerequisites

Hardware

Software

Setting up sensors

Schematic diagram

Device identity and registry with IoT Hub

Using Device Explorer

Face API

Emotion API

Sign Up Microsoft Cognitive Services

Development of facial expressions identification bot

Let’s code to know the emotions

Registering your Bot in Bot Framework

Publish and test your bot

Configure Direct Line Channel

Develop an UWP app for Raspberry Pi device

Create an UWP App project

How to detect the motion of the object using PIR Sensor and How to define the LED states

Initializing camera on detection of motion

How to send picture file to Facial Expression Bot and receive reply from it

Send Picture to Bot

Deploy Code in to Raspberry Pi

Show facial analytics data in Power BI

Set up Azure Stream Analytics to send IoT Hub data to Power BI

Set up Power BI

Summary

Publishing a Bot to Skype, Slack, Facebook, and the GroupMe Channel

Publishing bots to various channels

Publishing your bot application to Microsoft Azure web app

Registering your bot with Microsoft Bot Framework

Configuration

Testing the connection to your bot

Configuring channels

Configuring your bot with Slack

Configuring your bot with Skype

Configuring your bot with Facebook Messenger

Configuring your bot with GroupMe

Summary