At Build 2016 Conference Microsoft announced a new Framework to easily start building and connecting intelligent bots to interact with your users naturally wherever they are, from text/sms to Skype, Slack, Office 365 mail and other popular services. On this session I’ll give an introduction to Microsoft Bot Framework and how to connect conversation with actions by using webhook integrations.

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Building a Bot for your website
using the new Microsoft Bot
Framework
David Rodriguez
DNN Corp
@davidjrh
Joe Brinkman
DNN Corp
@jbrinkman

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On this session
• How do you make a bot?
• How do you make a bot great?

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DEMO
My first DNN Bot

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Bot Framework is a Microsoft-operated
service and an SDK.
Bot Framework
Bot Framework is one of many tools
Microsoft offers for building a complete
bot.
Others include: LUIS, Speech APIs, Azure,
more

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Bot Framework Overview

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Your conversation logic
Logic
Web
service
Your bot
LUIS

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Bot Connector
Your bot

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Bot Connector messages
Your bot
{
"type": "Message",
"id": "68YrxgtB53Y",
"conversationId": "DphPaFQrDuZDKyCez4AFGcT4vy5aQDje1lLGIjB8v18MFtb",
"language": "en",
"text": "You can say "/order" to order!",
"attachments": [ ],
"from": {
"name": "+12065551212",
"channelId": "sms",
"address": "+12065551212",
"id": "Ro52hKN287",
"isBot": false
},
"channelData": { SMS data here },
"botUserData": { your data here },
...
}
Bot
Connector

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Bot Builder SDKs
C# and Node.js
• Dialogs to model a conversation
• Dialogs are reusable
• Conversations are scalable to multiple machines
• Dialog state is persisted in Bot Connector
(per-user, per-session, per-user+session)
• Type of Dialogs:
• Built-in prompts
• Yes/No, String, Number, Choices
• Natural language understanding (LUIS)
• Form slot filling (branching, disambiguation,
multi-turn)
• Profile (e.g. home address)

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DEMO
Creating a bot from the Visual Studio template
Creating a bot as a DNN module using the Bot FX

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Connecting the bot with the world

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Connecting the bot with the world

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Connecting the bot with the world

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Connecting the bot with the world

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DEMO
Making a great bot: LUIS support

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Bots talking to other Bots?

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Questions?
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