Microsoft Bot Framework SDK V4 was released in September 2018, and since then we have shipped a few dot-release improvements. As announced previously, the V3 SDK is being retired with final lifetime support ending on December 31st, 2019. Existing V3 bot workloads will continue to run without interruption. We have no plans to disrupt any running workloads. Accordingly, Microsoft will discontinue the….
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[Updated on 5/31/2019] This blog covers how to use Web Chat with the Azure Bot Service’s built-in authentication capability to authenticate chat users with various identity providers such AAD, GitHub, Facebook, etc, including best practices on how to ensure a secure experience. This tutorial also covers where the built-in authentication features are currently supported and where they are not. Step 1: Registering Connections and….
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A very common chat/conversational feature that bot developers need to implement, is how to create an initial welcome or greeting message when a user initially begins interacting with the bot (say, the first time they open web chat). One issue some customers have been having lately, is that when using trying the conversationUpdate, is that their bot behaves as expected….
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Overview A key part of what makes the Azure Bot Service so great is it’s flexibility, which we’ve been emphasizing from the very beginning. When we’ve talked about flexibility in the past, we’ve typically referred to the Azure Bot Service’s ability to seamlessly connect your bots to multiple channels at once, and the option to easily add cognitive services such….
Welcome to the final article of this series! Hopefully if you’re reading this, you know that this is article is part of an ongoing guide on how to extend the Microsoft/Recognizers-Text project to support new languages. This exciting new open-source project released by the LUIS team provides robust recognition and resolution for unit entities commonly expressed in everyday language. In our previous….
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Previously in part 1, we gave an updated overview of the Recognizers-Text library which is used to power many of the prebuilt entities in LUIS. We provided a step-by-step guide to creating your own language specific definitions for both the .NET and Javascript versions of the project in YAML, and generating the platform-specific definitions using the tools already provided by the project.….
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Last year, we announced a new recognizer library by the LUIS team, which provides robust recognition and resolution for common units expressed in everyday human interaction. Since then, the code base has changed considerably, and the library has been expanded to include more pre-built entities including date-time, currency, dimensions, and age. Today, we’ll take a look into the code base of Recognizers-Text,….
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QnA Maker is currently one of the most popular cognitive services our customers are enthusiastic about using. Back in August we published a blog post describing how to create card attachments for answers returned from QnA maker for .NET. In this post, we’ll be describing how to do the exact same thing for bots built with the Bot Builder SDK for….
We’ve discussed strategies to store state data for bots in .NET, in this article we’ll demonstrate how to do the same for bots built using the Bot Builder SDK for Node.js. In this sample, we’ll be leveraging the botbuilder-azure npm module to save our conversation state data to Azure DocumentDB. Initial Setup Ensure you have Node.js installed. You’ll need an Azure Account. Click here for a….
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Back in March we implemented a new feature in the BotBuilder SDK for Node.js which allows developers to provide simple localization switching in their bots. This means your bot will be able to prompt your users for different language options. Using the Node SDK’s LocalizedRegExpRecognizer To add this feature, we included a new recognizer to the core library – LocalizedRegExpRecognizer. This….
