Have a personal or library account? Click to login
Building Bots with Microsoft Bot Framework Cover

Building Bots with Microsoft Bot Framework

Creating intelligent conversational interfaces

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
By: Kishore Gaddam  
Paid access
|Sep 2025
Product purchase options

Build intelligent and smart conversational interfaces using Microsoft Bot Framework

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

Bots help users to use the language as a UI and interact with the applications from any platform. This book teaches you how to develop real-world bots using Microsoft Bot Framework.

The book starts with setting up the Microsoft Bot Framework development environment and emulator, and moves on to building the first bot using Connector and Builder SDK. 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, 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 intent 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

Who this book is for

This book is for developers who are keen on building powerful services with great and interactive bot interface. Experience with C# is needed.

Table of Contents

  1. Setting up Microsoft Bot Framework Dev Environment
  2. Developing Your First Bot Using the Connector and Builder SDK
  3. Developing Weather Bot Using Dialogs and LUIS
  4. Natural Speech and Intent Processing Bot using Microsoft Cognitive Services
  5. Developing Bots Using LUIS Prompt Dialogs with State and Nearby Bot Using Custom APIs
  6. Developing IVR bot for a Bank using advanced Microsoft Bot Framework technologies
  7. Intelligent Bots with Microsoft Bot Framework & Service Fabric
  8. Developing Intelligent Facial Expression Identification Bot for IoT using Azure and Power BI
  9. Publishing a bot to Skype, Slack, Facebook, and the GroupMe Channel
https://github.com/packtpublishing/building-bots-with-microsoft-bot-framework
PDF ISBN: 978-1-78646-964-9
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2017 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2025
Language: English
Pages: 424
Related subjects:
Computer sciences,
Operating systems

People also read

Getting Started with Chatbots
Book

Getting Started with Chatbots

Mittal, Akhil
Hands-On Chatbots and Conversational UI Development
Book

Hands-On Chatbots and Conversational UI Development

Janarthanam, Srini
Building Slack Bots
Book

Building Slack Bots

Asjes, Paul
Voicebot and Chatbot Design
Book

Voicebot and Chatbot Design

Batish, Rachel
Empowering Organizations with Power Virtual Agents
Book

Empowering Organizations with Power Virtual Agents

Tarla, Nicolae
Microsoft Azure AI: A Beginner’s Guide
Book

Microsoft Azure AI: A Beginner’s Guide

Kodali, Rekha, Narayanan Govindarajulu, Sankara, Athaulla, Mohammed
Hands-On Chatbot Development with Alexa Skills and Amazon Lex
Book

Hands-On Chatbot Development with Alexa Skills and Amazon Lex

Williams, Sam
Building AI Applications with OpenAI APIs
Book

Building AI Applications with OpenAI APIs

Yanev, Martin
ChatGPT for Conversational AI and Chatbots
Book

ChatGPT for Conversational AI and Chatbots

Thompson, Adrian
Customizing Microsoft Teams
Book

Customizing Microsoft Teams

Kondameda, Gopi