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Building a Bot for your website using the new Microsoft Bot Framework

David RodriguezDNN Corp@davidjrh

Joe BrinkmanDNN Corp@jbrinkman

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On this session

• How do you make a bot?• How do you make a bot great?

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DEMOMy first DNN Bot

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Bot Framework is a Microsoft-operated service and an SDK.

Bot Framework

Bot Framework is one of many tools Microsoft offers for building a complete bot.

www.botframework.comOthers include: LUIS, Speech APIs, Azure, more

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Bot Framework Overview

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Your conversation logic

Logic

Web service

Your bot

Bot Builder SDK

(Node.js + C#)

LUIS

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Bot Connector

Your bot

Bot Connector

Send/receive messagesStore stateTranslationTelemetry

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Dev portal

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Bot Connector messages

Your bot{ "type": "Message", "id": "68YrxgtB53Y", "conversationId": "DphPaFQrDuZDKyCez4AFGcT4vy5aQDje1lLGIjB8v18MFtb", "language": "en", "text": "You can say \"/order\" to order!", "attachments": [ ], "from": { "name": "+12065551212", "channelId": "sms", "address": "+12065551212", "id": "Ro52hKN287", "isBot": false }, "channelData": { SMS data here }, "botUserData": { your data here }, ...}

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Bot Builder SDKs

C# and Node.js• Dialogs to model a conversation

• Dialogs are reusable• Conversations are scalable to multiple

machines• Dialog state is persisted in Bot Connector

(per-user, per-session, per-user+session)• Type of Dialogs:

• Built-in prompts• Yes/No, String, Number, Choices

• Natural language understanding (LUIS)• Form slot filling (branching, disambiguation,

multi-turn)• Profile (e.g. home address)

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DEMOCreating a bot from the Visual Studio templateCreating a bot as a DNN module using the Bot FX

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Connecting the bot with the world

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Connecting the bot with the world

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Connecting the bot with the world

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Connecting the bot with the world

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DEMOMaking a great bot: LUIS support

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Bots talking to other Bots?

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Questions?

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