How to Get started with Microsoft Bot Framework

Bots are the talk of the town now a days and Microsoft Bot Framework is one of the leading Bot framework.

After creating few bot with help from the internet, thinking of collating some of the good resources to start creating bots using Microsoft Bot Framework.

So here are few really good resources to start with.

1. First thing to check is

https://dev.botframework.com/

This is the site one need to visit for registering the account & creating new bots.
It also have lots of resources on how to create one.

2. Once the account is setup, have a look at the youtube channel of James Mann.
The videos are very informative & helps build the different stuff with bots.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLcFx6qcMQE&list=PLgF-CyaX1p3FE55OTRNH-kOb16zqeBZCo


3. You will need to download the dev environment and you will need VS 2015 or VS 2017.
VS for Mac currently not supported.

https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/


4. Once the dev environment is setup, you will need the download the project template.
Head directly to below

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/bot-framework/dotnet/bot-builder-dotnet-quickstart

5. Download few important packages like Microsoft.Bot.Builder
Keep looking for updates as these packages get updated frequently.



Happy Coding,
Parshuram

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