The Bot Application runs inside an application in different channel like Cortana, Skype, web chat, Facebook, Message, etc. Users can interact with bots by sending them messages, commands, and inline requests. Microsoft has announced Line App new channel added into the Azure portal.

LINE is a new communication app which allows you to make FREE voice calls and send FREE messages whenever and wherever you are. Line is available in different device iPhone, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, and Nokia and even your PC and LINE is a popular messaging app with hundreds of millions of users in India, Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, and other countries. You can follow the below steps for Create FAQ Bot and enable your bot in the Line new channel.

Create FAQ Bot Application

Webhook URL - Webhook URL copy from Azure Portal and Update in the Line app developer portal

The Bot Framework Composer is a fantastic tool for creating/developing Microsoft bots, as it gives you the ability to sketch out and compose the whole simple and complex Bot applications within a visual interface instead of writing actual code. Composer to create the bot solution’s code and run it immediately to test it in the emulator and deploy it to Azure using the CLI. Bot developers should check out Composer awesome tool, as this will make your Bot development even easier in terms of building smart and engaging bots with ease. Read my previous article to build and setup the bot framework Composer development environment.

The primary goal when creating any bot is to engage your user in a meaningful conversation. One of the best ways to achieve this goal is to ensure that from the moment a user first connects, they understand your bot’s main purpose and capabilities, the reason your bot was created. In this article you will learn more about How you create initial and create greeting messages using bot framework composer.

Create New Bot Application

In Bot Framework Composer Editor provide different feature for Create a new bot project, You can choice

1. Create new bot Project from scratch
2. List of Bot Template
3. Select very Recent Project
4. Collection of Recent Project 

Bot Project template contains all the code that's necessary to create the bot, you won't actually need to write any additional code for simple startup. Let we select to create a new bot from scratch with a composer.

 

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Bot Framework Composer is a fantastic tool for creating/developing Microsoft bots, as it gives you the ability to sketch out and compose the whole simple and complex Bot applications within a visual interface instead of writing actual code. Composer to create the bot solution’s code and run it immediately to test it in the emulator and deploy it to Azure using the CLI. Bot developers should definitely check out this really awesome tool as this will be making your Bot development even easier in terms of building smart and engaging bots with ease. You want to learn more, just read this article for understanding and setup Bot Framework composer.

Setup Bot Framework Composer 

The Microsoft Bot Framework Composer is a Microsoft open source GitHub project, you can clone the source code and start contributing to the development as well. It’s a web-based application, you can download and run the web application in a local machine.

Run Bot Composer web application

You can wait some time for cloning the source code, after cloning the repo open a command prompt and navigate to the Bot Framework Composer folder and run the following commands to start the web application.

Step 1: Build and Run the Composer application yarn software is required. Yarn is a package manager for code. It allows you to use and share code with other developers from around the world.

Step 2: Node JS is required for setup the application, download and install the Node JS application.



Step 3: Build and test application required Dot net core SDK, Install Dotnet core 2.2++




Step 4: Download and install Bot emulator for test the application

Step 5: You can successfully install and all required software, let us start build and test the composer. Open Command prompt and switch to “Composer” folder using cd <folder path>/Composer




Step 6: Install all the dependencies using “yarn install “ in command prompt



Step 7: creating and optimized production build extensions and library using “yarn build “ in command prompt.




Step 8: Start the client and server using “yarn startall” in command prompt.



Step 9: Bot framework Composer hosted successfully, open a browser and navigate to the address(http://localhost:3000) after the message composer runs successfully.

Create New Bot Composer Project

 You can create a new project or Microsoft provided example template with best practices and supporting components. Let us continue and select an existing composer template for demo.
Step 1: Click on New or Select Example template and provide the Solutions Location, name and project description and start doing the Visual design.



Step 2: Start look, the visual design and no need to design for now and next article will explain very detail to How to manage and design and modify visual design




Step 3: Click on “Start Bot”, it will take some time to build the solutions



Step 4: You're now ready to start and test your bot. You will then see the Test in Emulator button show up. Click Test in Emulator and Bot Framework Emulator should start.

Debug Bot Framework Composer Build issue 

You can easily resolve your build problem, if you are getting error “You intended to execute a .NET Core program, but dotnet-bin/Debug/netcoreapp2.1/BotProject.dll does not exist. * You intended to run a global tool, but a dotnet-prefixed executable with this name could not be found on the PATH.”, the output solution not able to compile.

Go the location of your generated bot (The one you set when creating a new bot, defaults to User Documents > Composer). 

Open command prompt “Run dotnet” build in your bot directory and see the errors.
If you have a visual studio, you can ignore step 2 and Open your project in Visual Studio.
The issue may be ranges of sources for the build not to run. Wrongly configured Nuget sources, misaligned package version, just check and resolve yourself.
Once the build succeeds, launching the bot via Composer again.

Summary 

You have successfully done the setup and build a bot application in Bot framework composer. I hope you have enjoyed learning. If you have any questions/feedback/issues, please write them in the comment box.

Create Azure article is not a problem, we can take a screenshot and mask using a paint application or other tools, but while doing Live presentation or screen recording is a big challenge, there was a security problem. Subscription ID, email addresses, keys etc are visible on a big screen or visible in the session recordings afterwards. Microsoft shared google chrome and Firefox browser add-on for mask azure secure content.

Azure Mask Features 

The following feature available in the Azure mast extensions

• Blurs Username, Key
• Blurs GUIDs (such as Subscription IDs)
• Blurs your account email and Secure content
• Hides the "Report a Bug" button (if found)

Installing the chrome Extension 

Microsoft currently not published in the Chrome Web Store. You can download release version and add manually into the chrome extension as per below steps.

Step 1: Download Latest .crx file.

Step 2: Go to Chrome browser and select the extensions.

Step 3: Make sure the "Developer mode” is enabled.

Step 4: Drag the .crx file to your Chrome window that has the extensions view open

Step 5: Confirm any prompts 

You have successfully added chrome extensions, let we continue and see, How it's working, In the browser near to address bar Azure mask icon will be there, Just do toggle for mask.



You can log in to azure Portal and see all the sensitive information is blurred like Subscription IDs and user ID like below.

Summary 

I hope this article gave you some value and This is a fantastic tool which saves you a lot of time and makes your presentations more secure. Please leave your feedback/query using the comments box, and if you like this article, please share it with your friends.

The Microsoft Azure, Cloud, MicrosoftAI and Enterprise Symbol / Icon Set is a free download from Microsoft website, the folder included set of symbols/icons as an SVG.




Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel for Office 365 on Windows, Mac, Android and iOS Mobile support inserting and editing, scalable vector graphics (.SVG) files in your documents, presentations, emails, and workbooks. You can open any document and insert Microsoft SVG icon and modify styles, size and arrange, it's more helpful for Prestation preparation, technical architecture design and add into different applications

The Bot Framework supports different types of rich cards, Azure AD authentication and provides a richer interaction experience to the users, I have already shared about message design, login, and deployment in my previous article. In this article, I will share about how to connect and deploy bots into Bing Search.
You can build Bing Bot Application using Bot Framework and connect the application to the Bing channel, whenever user search tag /category text and Bing search output show your Bot along with your website.



You can follow below give steps for implement your bot application into the Bing Channel.

Setup and Create New Bot Application

You can read my previous article for create a Bots Application Using Visual Studio 2017 from following URL http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/getting-started-with-bots-using-visual-studio-2017/

Deploy Bot to Azure

You can read my previous article for deploy bot application into Azure using Visual Studio 2017 from following URL http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/getting-started-deploy-a-bot-to-azure-using-visual-studio-2017/

Publishing Bot on Bing

Step 1: