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Overview

This branch contains samples for the released version of the Microsoft Bot Framework V4 SDK for .NET, JS and Python. If you need samples for the Bot Framework V3 SDK, go here.

Getting the samples

To use the samples, clone this GitHub repository using Git.

    git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/BotBuilder-Samples.git
    cd BotBuilder-Samples

Sample lists

Samples are designed to illustrate functionality you'll need to implement to build great bots!

• Bot essentials
• Advanced bots
• Authentication samples
• QnA Maker samples
• Teams samples
• Skills samples
• Custom adapter samples
• Experimental / preview samples

Bot essentials

	Sample Name	Description	.NET	JavaScript	Python
2	Echo bot	Demonstrates how to receive and send messages.	.NET Core	JavaScript, TypeScript	Python
3	Welcome user	Introduces activity types and provides a welcome message on conversation update activity.	.NET Core	JavaScript, TypeScript	Python
5	Multi turn prompts	Demonstrates how to use waterfall dialog, prompts, and component dialog to create a simple interaction that asks the user for name, age, and prints back that information.	.NET Core	JavaScript, TypeScript	Python
6	Using cards	Introduces all card types including thumbnail, audio, media etc. Builds on Welcoming user + multi-prompt bot by presenting a card with buttons in welcome message that route to appropriate dialog.	.NET Core	JavaScript, TypeScript	Python
7	Adaptive cards	Demonstrates how the multi-turn dialog can use a card to get user input for name and age.	.NET Core	JavaScript	Python
8	Suggested actions	Demonstrates how to enable your bot to present buttons that the user can tap to provide input.	.NET Core	JavaScript	Python
13	Core bot	Core bot shows how to use cards, dialog, and Language Understanding (LUIS).	.NET Core, .NET Web	JavaScript, TypeScript	Python
14	NLP with Dispatch	Demonstrates how to dispatch across LUIS and QnA Maker.	.NET Core	JavaScript	Python
15	Handling attachments	Demonstrates how to listen for/handle user provided attachments.	.NET Core	JavaScript	Python
40	TIMEX resolution	Demonstrates various ways to parse and manipulate the TIMEX expressions you get from LUIS and the DateTimeRecognizer used by the DateTimePrompt.	.NET Core	JavaScript	Python
43	Complex dialogs	Demonstrates different ways for composing dialogs.	.NET Core	JavaScript	Python
45	State management	Demonstrates how to use state management and storage objects to manage and persist state.	.NET Core	JavaScript	Python

Advanced bots

	Sample Name	Description	.NET	JavaScript	Python
1	Console echo bot	Introduces the concept of adapter and demonstrates a simple echo bot on console adapter and how to send a reply and access the incoming message.	.NET Core	JavaScript, TypeScript	Python
1	Browser echo bot	Demonstrates how to host a bot in the browser using Web Chat and a custom Web Chat Adapter.		ECMAScript 6
16	Proactive messages	Demonstrates how to send proactive messages to users.	.NET Core	JavaScript, TypeScript	Python
17	Multilingual bot	Using translate middleware to support a multi-lingual bot. Demonstrates custom middleware.	.NET Core	JavaScript	Python
19	Custom dialogs	Demonstrates complex conversation flow using the Dialogs library.	.NET Core	JavaScript	Python
21	Application Insights	Demonstrates how to add telemetry logging to your bot, storing telemetry within Application Insights.	.NET Core	JavaScript
23	Facebook events	Integrate and consume Facebook specific payloads, such as post-backs, quick replies and opt-in events.	.NET Core	JavaScript	Python
42	Scale out	Demonstrates how you can build your own state solution from the ground up that supports scaled out deployment with ETag based optimistic locking.	.NET Core		Python
44	Basic custom prompts	Demonstrates how to implement your own basic prompts to ask the user for information.	.NET Core	JavaScript	Python
47	Inspection middleware	Demonstrates how to use middleware to allow the Bot Framework Emulator to debug traffic into and out of the bot in addition to looking at the current state of the bot.	.NET Core	JavaScript	Python
70	Styling webchat	This sample shows how to create a web page with custom Web Chat component.		ECMAScript 6

Authentication samples

	Sample Name	Description	.NET	JavaScript	Python
18	OAuth authentication	Bot that demonstrates how to integrate OAuth providers.	.NET Core	JavaScript	Python
24	MSGraph authentication	Demonstrates bot authentication capabilities of Azure Bot Service. Demonstrates utilizing the Microsoft Graph API to retrieve data about the user.	.NET Core	JavaScript	Python
46	Teams authentication	Demonstrates how to use authentication for a bot running in Microsoft Teams.	.NET Core	JavaScript	Python

QnA Maker samples

	Sample Name	Description	.NET	JavaScript	Python
11	QnA Maker (simple)	Demonstrates how to use QnA Maker to have simple single-turn conversations	.NET Core	JavaScript	Python
49	QnA Maker (advanced)	Demonstrates how to integrate Multiturn and Active learning in a QnA Maker bot. This also demonstrates the QnAMakerDialog class.	.NET Core	JavaScript

Teams samples

	Sample Name	Description	.NET	JavaScript	Python
46	Authentication	Demonstrates how to use authentication for a bot running in Microsoft Teams.	.NET Core	JavaScript	Python
50	Messaging extensions - search	A Messaging Extension that accepts search requests and returns results.	.NET Core	JavaScript	Python
51	Messaging extensions - action	A Messaging Extension that accepts parameters and returns a card. Also, how to receive a forwarded message as a parameter in a Messaging Extension.	.NET Core	JavaScript	Python
52	Messaging extensions - auth and config	A Messaging Extension that has a configuration page, accepts search requests and returns results after the user has signed in.	.NET Core	JavaScript
53	Messaging extensions - action preview	Demonstrates how to create a Preview and Edit flow for a Messaging Extension.	.NET Core	JavaScript	Python
54	Task module	Demonstrates how to retrieve a Task Module, and values from cards in the Task Module, for a Messaging Extension.	.NET Core	JavaScript	Python
55	Link unfurling	A Messaging Extension that performs link unfurling.	.NET Core	JavaScript	Python
56	File upload	Demonstrates how to obtain file consent, and upload files to Teams from a bot. Also, how to receive a file sent to a bot.	.NET Core	JavaScript	Python
57	Conversation bot	Demonstrates various features of bots on Teams: message all members in a Team or Channel, @mention a user from a bot, update previously sent messages, etc.	.NET Core	JavaScript	Python
58	Start new thread in a channel	Demonstrates creating a new thread in a channel.	.NET Core	JavaScript	Python

Custom adapter samples

	Sample Name	Description	.NET	JavaScript	Python
60	Slack	Demonstrates the use of the custom adapter for Slack.	.NET Core		Python
61	Facebook	Demonstrates the use of the custom adapter for Facebook.	.NET Core
62	Webex	Demonstrates the use of the custom adapter for Webex Teams.	.NET Core
63	Twilio	Demonstrates the use of the custom adapter for Twilio.	.NET Core

Skills samples

	Sample Name	Description	.NET	JavaScript	Python
80	Skills - simple bot to bot	This sample shows how to connect a skill to a skill consumer.	.NET Core	JavaScript	Python
81	Skills - skill dialog	This sample shows how to connect a skill to a skill dialog consumer.	.NET Core	JavaScript	Python

Experimental / preview samples

A collection of experimental samples exist, intended to provide samples for features currently in preview or as a way to solicit feedback on a given design, approach, or technology being considered by the Bot Framework Team.

Contributing

This project welcomes contributions and suggestions. Most contributions require you to agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA) declaring that you have the right to, and actually do, grant us the rights to use your contribution. For details, visit https://cla.microsoft.com.

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Reporting security issues

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