{"id":7777,"date":"2021-10-11T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2021-10-11T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/?p=7777"},"modified":"2021-11-15T15:55:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T23:55:06","slug":"building-great-bots-for-microsoft-teams-with-azure-bot-framework-composer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/microsoft365dev\/building-great-bots-for-microsoft-teams-with-azure-bot-framework-composer\/","title":{"rendered":"Building great bots for Microsoft Teams with Azure Bot Framework Composer\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bots are hot! They provide a conversational user interface that works very well in Microsoft Teams and other chat-based applications.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So-called \u201cQnA Maker\u201d bots <\/a>have been around for awhile; they require little to no code, but they\u2019re limited to matching user questions with a list of pre-defined answers in the QnA Maker service. Until recently, building a bot that can do more, such as taking actions on behalf of a user in Microsoft Teams, meant doing a lot of coding, as well as training and integrating cognitive services for language recognition and knowledge management.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

All of that has changed, opening a new set of options for building sophisticated Microsoft Teams bots. One of the options, Power Virtual Agents<\/a>, is part of the Power Platform suite and is tightly integrated with Power Automate. This article, however, will consider another, lesser known, but perhaps even more powerful option, Bot Framework Composer<\/a>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Bot Framework Composer is designed for low-code and full-code developers alike. It provides an easy-to-use design surface for building a bot, integration with Azure cognitive services, and it works well for teams of developers building apps that can be deployed in multiple Microsoft 365 tenants. This makes it a great choice for ISVs and system integrators who want to deploy a centrally hosted bot for many customers, as well as for enterprise developers.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Microsoft 365 Developer Advocacy team is pleased to announce a new video series that is all about Bot Framework Composer. It starts at the beginning, creating a bot from scratch, and leads the viewer through building more advanced features such as language recognition, Adaptive Card responses, user authentication, and calling the Microsoft Graph API which allows access to data throughout the Microsoft 365 suite. Developer advocates Ayca Bas and Bob German will be your guides on this journey from zero to Bot hero.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is a listing of the videos, along with the reference materials used in each.<\/span> View the full playlist<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bot composer can do, WHAT? \ud83d\ude2e – Build low-code Microsoft Teams bots using Bot Composer<\/h5>\n

This video starts with some basic concepts and a demonstration showing how to create a new bot from scratch and access it from Microsoft Teams.<\/span><\/p>\n