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Intro

Bot Framework is Microsofts’f framework for writing bots.

Root to the docs (somewhat salesy) are here. Has some surprising cool stuff like links to all the bots you published to Azure.

• Detailed docs start here
• A useful article
• Current install quickstart
• Current install bitly form
• Channel 9 getting started with bots with Tom Morgan
• Channel 9 on build a bot with ABS in 10 minutes with Anthony Chu

Things I forget

• Current install quickstart
• You don’t get a Bot Application template in Visual Studio until you unzip the templates and copy them to your Visual Studio 2017 project templates directory
  • %USERPROFILE%\Visual Studio 2017\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#\
  • I find it bizzaar that in 2017 there is no msi that does this for you.
• there all also templates for creating a
• You test a bot by compiling it and then running the bot emulator.
• The connection url that you pout the emulator at is found in (where?).