Creating our first bot

To develop a bot, perform the following steps:

1. Build a bot using the C# SDK.
2. Test it using the Bot Framework emulator.

Building a bot using the C# SDK

Let's go through the steps to create a bot application using the Bot Framework Connector SDK .NET template. They are as follows:

1. Open Visual Studio and navigate to File | New | Project... and select Visual C# from the left side Templates category. Then, from the Templates section, you will see the Bot Application template:

Figure 2: Creating a new project in Visual Studio IDE

2. Select the Bot Application template, name the project Hello World, and then click on OK:

Figure 3: Selecting the Bot Application template and naming the project

A solution gets created with the Hello World project.

Let's go through the default files that were created by this Bot Application template in Visual Studio.

When we create a bot using the Bot Application template, it basically creates an ASP.NET Web API project, which contains all the Bot Framework...