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Product type Paperback

Published in May 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781786463104

Length 424 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Azure

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Chatbots

Author (1):

Gaddam

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. Setting up Microsoft Bot Framework Dev Environment FREE CHAPTER

2. Developing Your First Bot Using the Connector and Builder SDK

3. Developing WeatherBot 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 an IVR Bot for a Bank Using Advanced Microsoft Bot Framework Technologies

7. Intelligent Bots with Microsoft Bot Framework and 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

Getting started using stateless microservices

First, we will learn how to develop a bot and publish/host in Service Fabric using stateless microservices.

Setting up your development environment for Service Fabric

To build and run Azure Service Fabric applications on your development machine, install the runtime, SDK, and tools. It's also necessary to enable execution of the Windows PowerShell scripts that are included in the SDK.

Prerequisites

The following operating system versions are supported for development:

Windows 7
Windows 8/Windows 8.1
Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows Server 2016
Windows 10

Installing the SDK and tools

In Visual Studio 2015, Service Fabric tools are installed together with the SDK; if you cannot find the Service Fabric templates or tools, then you can install them with the help of Web Platform Installer or go through http://www.microsoft.com/web/handlers/webpi.ashx?command=getinstallerredirect&appid=MicrosoftAzure-ServiceFabric-VS2015 to download the Service Fabric SDK...