If you are new to the Bot Builder SDK, we strongly encourage you to build your bot using the v4 SDK.

This repo contains version 3.

The Bot Builder SDK enables you to build bots that support different types of interactions with users. You can design conversations in your bot to be freeform. Your bot can also have more guided interactions where it provides the user choices or actions. The conversation can use simple text or more complex rich cards that contain text, images, and action buttons. You can add natural language interactions and questions and answers, which let your users interact with your bots in a natural way.

The Bot Builder includes a set of command line tools to streamline end-to-end conversation centric development experience, and an emulator for debugging your bot locally or in the cloud.

You can create a bot with Bot Builder v3 SDK using your favorite language:

• .NET
• JavaScript

Visit azure.com for the primary Azure Bot Service documentation page to learn about building bots using Bot Builder. There is additional documentation on the SDK, oriented towards contributors. The v3 SDK currently supports two programing language:

• .NET
• JavaScript

Bot builder SDK v3 includes samples for all supported languages:

• .NET
• JavaScript

If you have questions about Bot Builder SDK v3 or using Azure Bot Service, we encourage you to reach out to the community and Azure Bot Service dev team for help.

• For questions which fit the Stack Overflow format ("how does this work?"), we monitor the both Azure-bot-service and bot framework tags (search both)
• You can also tweet/follow @msbotframework

While we do our best to help out on a timely basis, we don't have any promise around the above resources. If you need an SLA on support from us, it's recommended you invest in an Azure Support plan.

We track functional issues and features asks for and Bot Builder and Azure Bot Service in a variety of locations. If you have found an issue or have a feature request, please submit an issue to the below repositories.

• SDK v3 (.NET and node)
• SDK v4 - .NET
• SDK v4 - JavaScript
• SDK v4 - Python
• SDK v4 - Java
• Bot Builder tools
• Bot Builder Emulator

• SDK v3
• SDK v4

Your bot can provide a great conversational experience without using any Azure Cognitive Services. You can increase your customers' delight with adding a more natural interaction using one or multiple Azure Cognitive Services. The following are common services integrated to bots:

• LUIS
• QnA Maker
• Speech
• Personality Chat - Handles Small-Talk/Chitchat for any bot, in line with a distinct personality.
• all Azure Cognitive Services

Get started quickly with our samples:

• Bot Builder samples GitHub repo
• More samples are available within the SDK C#, Node.js

Join the conversation on Gitter.

See all the support options here.

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact [email protected] with any additional questions or comments.