An Introduction to the Microsoft Bot Framework: Create Facebook and Skype Chatbots using Microsoft Visual Studio and C#

This book covers the Microsoft Bot Framework Preview Edition

The Microsoft Bot Framework allows you to easily create bots. This book covers using Visual Studio 2015 to create Chatbots using the Microsoft Bot Framework.

The purpose of this book is to demonstrate, provide examples of, and to explain important concepts of the technology. You can create bots that interact with your users naturally wherever they are, including Facebook, text, Skype, Office 365 email, and other popular services.

Chapter 1: Understanding the Microsoft Bot Framework
Chapter 2: Create a Hello World! Bot
Chapter 3: Using FormFlow
Chapter 4: Using Dialogs
Chapter 5: Using Images, Cards, Carousels, and Buttons
Chapter 6: Implementing A SQL Server Database With Your Bot
Chapter 7: Implementing Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS)
Chapter 8: Calling The Microsoft Bot Framework Using The Direct Line API
Chapter 9: Using Application Insights To Monitor Your Bot
Chapter 10: Creating a Skype Bot
Chapter 11: Creating A Facebook Messenger Bot