We’ve already looked at how a botframework bot receives messages, and even how to save those messages. In this article I’ll show you how to handle files that are sent to your botframework chatbot. When a user interacts with your bot, unless they’re responding to a prompt, they will cause the Message controller’s Post method […]
In my previous article I showed how to override various methods within botframework such that you could run some logic to save your bot’s dialogues. In this article I’ll give an example implementation of the IMessageRepository Interface. IMessageRepository and IMessageActivity In the last article I introduced an IMessageRepository concept in order to show how it […]
Now that you’ve deployed your well structured, exception handling, language understanding chatbot, how do you know just what people are saying to it? Sure, you could copy and paste some logging code all over the place, but there must be a cleaner way. In this article I’ll show you a few simple tricks to be […]
I had an awesome time presenting my session at the second LDNBotframework meetup! This time I ordered the correct amount of pizza, and let people loose on it at the right time; so no fridge full of pizza for breakfast the next day! From Zero to Echo via BotFramework Tight deadline Having scheduled this session […]
In the last article I touched on how IoC is used within botframework using Autofac. If you’re comfortable with IoC, you probably started to enhance your dialogs using constructor injection, so that you can put your conversation logic outside of your entry point and just start coding without needing an implementation to exist yet, e.g., […]
During your time building and debugging your botframework chatbot, you’ve probably already come across the annoyance of seeing a huge error message with a ridiculous stack trace that doesn’t seem to relate to your error, or even just a plain old HTTP 500 and big red exclamation mark.. Perhaps you’ve deployed to a production environment […]
We recently wrapped up the first #LDNBotFramework meetup! There were a lot of lessons learned for me, as a first time meetup organiser, and overall I think it was a success. The venue was great; the big video wall in JustEat’s Fleet Place House office combined with a mic and speaker system that “just works”, […]
In the previous LUIS article, I introduced how to set up and train (and publish) a LUIS language interpreting web service, getting an “intent” and extracting “entities” from a given “utterance” In this article I’ll use LUIS to enhance your botframework chatbot If you haven’t done so already, create your bot using botframework, and set […]
If you’re one of the few people who have managed to avoid the onslaught of Chat Bot related articles over the past year, then let me start by way of an introduction; a chatbot is, in it’s most basic form, a computer program that can mimic basic human conversations. This isn’t particularly new or exciting; […]
Creating a hosted bot using Microsoft’s botframework couldn’t be easier; hopefully you’ve had a chance to create one already, and if not there’s a great introduction to creating your first bot right here. In the previous article we saw how to create a QnA (aka FAQ/Knowledge Base) service using a little known QnA Maker service […]