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Microsoft Bot Framework Composer Documentation

Overview

• Introduction to Bot Framework Composer

Installation

• Install Composer

QuickStart

• Tour of Composer
• Create your first bot

Tutorials

1. Introduction
2. Create a bot
3. Add a dialog
4. Get weather report
5. Add help and cancel commands
6. Add Language Generation
7. Use cards
8. Add LUIS

Concepts

• Dialog
• Trigger
• Conversation flow and memory
• Natural language processing
• Language generation
• Language understanding
• Composer best practices
• Composer plugins

Samples

• Learn from samples

Develop

• Send messages
• Send cards
• Ask for user input
• Manage conversation flow
• Define triggers
• Define intents and entities
• Add LUIS to your bot
• Add QnA to your bot
• Create QnA Maker knowledge base
• Create bots in multiple languages
• Add user authentication
• Send an HTTP request
• Add custom actions
• Extend Composer with plugins
• Host Composer in the cloud
• Export a skill
• Connect to a skill

Test

• Test in Emulator

Debug

• Validation
• Capture bot's telemetry

Publish

• Publish your bot to Azure

Glossary

• Glossary

Resources

• Bot Framework Adaptive Dialog
• Language generation
• Adaptive expressions
• .lu file format
• .lg file format
• Power Virtual Agents

Related projects

• Bot Framework
• Bot Framework SDK
• Bot Framework Emulator