Developing a Nearby Bot using custom APIs

So far, you have learned about bot application creation using Visual Studio, publishing to Azure, Bot registration at dev.Botframework.com, and connecting to channels. In this Nearby Bot tutorial, we will explain how to use third-party APIs from your bot.

The main purpose of this bot is to provide information about the nearby amenities of a given place--for example, if you want to know the top restaurants near New York.

Note

This guide is for C# using the Bot Framework Connector SDK .NET template.

Let's look at the steps:

1. Open Visual Studio and click on New | Project...:

2. Select Visual C# from the left side template category; then, from the templates section, you will see the Bot Application template:

3. Select the Bot Application template, name the project NearbyBot, and then click on OK.

Before we jump into the code, first we will explain how to get the nearby places information of a given place using third-party APIs. We will do this by using the Google Places...