Developing Bots with Microsoft Bots Framework

Srikanth Machiraju has over nine years of experience as a developer, architect, technical trainer and communityspeaker. He is currently working with Microsoft Hyderabad designing and preaching modern application developmentusing cutting-edge platforms and technologies. Prior to Microsoft he worked at BrainScale as Technicaltraining/SME on application building and migrations with Azure. He is a tech savvy developer who is passionateabout embracing new technologies and sharing his learning as blogs or wider communities. He has also authored“Learned Windows Server Containers”, blogs at https://vishwanathsrikanth.wordpress.com and active on LinkedIn athttps://www.linkedin.com/in/vishsrik/ Ritesh Modi is an ex-Microsoft commercial software engineering senior technical evangelist. He is an architect, senior evangelist, Cloud architect, published author, speaker, and a known leader for his contributions towardsDatacenter, Azure, Bots, Blockchain, Cognitive services, DevOps, Artificial Intelligence and automation. Currently, he is working as Principal Consultant with Infront Consulting. He has more than a decade of experience in building and deploying enterprise solutions for customers and recently co-authored Introducing Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview with the Windows Server team.  He has spoken at multiple conferences including TechEd and PowerShell Asia, does lots of internal training and is a writer for MSDN magazine. 

Chapter 1: Conversations as Platforms.- Chapter 2: Developing Skype Bot using .NET Core.- Chapter 3: Developing Bots Using Node JS.- Chapter 4: Channels.- Chapter 5: Bot Conversations.- Chapter 6: Skype Calling Bots.- Chapter 7: Storing State.- Chapter 8: Dialogs.- Chapter 9: Natural Language Processing.- Chapter 10: Azure Cognitive Services.- Chapter 11: Bot Operations.