C# Bot Builder Samples on GitHub

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A good way to get ideas and some coding best practice is to look at some examples, there are many of them using C# hosted on GitHub here.

I wanted to walk through what they are so I can for myself find or discover some new ideas and best practices for this, as I am interested in creating a #chatbot like I discussed in these links

• Create a Bot using an Azure App Service Bot Service
• Most common chatbot questions and how to answer them
• Publishing a chatbot using Bot Services and LUIS
• How I tested / debugged my chatbot that I created using the Bot Services on Azure
• How my chatbot remained statefull using Azure Bot Services
• C# Bot Builder Samples on GitHub
• Top 10 must have Phrase List Features for your chatbot or any bot LUIS
• 1000 must have utterances for your chatbot using LUIS
• Adding LUIS Entities to my chatbot
• How I improved my chatbot

Some samples, the name and my description of them

Title	Location	Description
intelligence-SpeechToText	SpeechToText	Upload an audio (.wav) file and the audible words are converted to text and provided in a response
intelligence-SimilarProducts	SimilarProducts	Upload a picture of a blue shoe, another image of a similar blue shoe is returned
intelligence-LUIS	LUIS	Send text and the Intent of it is returned
intelligence-ImageCaption	ImageCaption	Upload a picture and the Computer Vision API will return some text describing the contents of the image
demo-Search	Search	An interface into Azure Search for navigating through large amounts of content
demo-ContosoFlowers	ContosoFlowers	Renders a Card as a welcome message, plus other examples of dialogs and other Card types
core-State	State	Useful for maintaining State which persists data relative to a user conversation
core-SendAttachment	SendAttachment	In the #chatbot interface the client can send the bot an attachment, useful with SpeechToText, ImageCaption, etc…
core-ReceiveAttachment	ReceiveAttachment	If the #chatbot needs to send an attachment back to the client like a .wav, .png, .gif, etc…
core-MultiDialogs	MultiDialogs	Dialogs are a conversation process, yes/no questions or selection dialog windows
core-GetConversationMembers	GetConversationMembers	Detecting when people join or leave a group conversation, so you can notify others and welcome them
core-DirectLine	DirectLine	Client to client direct communication, perhaps the way to get intelligent bots to speak with each other
core-CreateNewConversation	CreateNewConversation	Have a bot initiate the conversation with the client
core-ChannelData	ChannelData	Support for using channel specific capabilities like Skype, Facebook, Microsoft Teams, Slack, etc…
cards-RichCards	RichCards	Cards are pictures or emoticons, which are not attachments, with headings and descriptions
cards-CarouselCards	CarouselCards	Send multiple Cards with the left/right navigation arrows allowing client to scroll through

 

As I am wanting to create a #chatbot I think about the above capabilities and have these findings:

• If the client uploads a picture of themselves I can use the age and sentiment APIs to learn more about them and make some funny answer, use SendAttachment as well
• If a client uploads any picture use the ImageCaption to comment on it, use SendAttachment as well
• If the client enters something that I do not recognize, ask if the client would like me to search the internet or some content, can use Search or SimilarProducts
• If the client asks for a picture of the #chatbot use ReceiveAttachment to send the client one
• Use LUIS as the basis for determining the intent of the conversation with the client

These are just some ideas on using some of these examples, perhaps every 100 or so transactions you can present a RichCards to advertise or CreateNewConversation to keep the client engaged and chatting.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Cognitive #BotServices #Azure

Comments

• Anonymous
  February 06, 2017
  Super like for your contribution
• Anonymous
  March 04, 2017
  This is amazing, I can't wait to start developing these and seeing how they fit into my own architecture!