In this episode Stephan is walking you through all the options you have when you are building a messaging extension. Showing you how you can easily use the Bot Framework to extend teams. Making it easy to track your todos by adding conversations and messages to planner or todo righty from the teams client. Awesome demo time!

The Bot Framework Composer is a new tool from Microsoft helping developers in creating bots with the help of a graphical interface. Its goal is to allow multi-disciplinary teams to build bots and conversational experiences with the Microsoft Bot Framework. The tool is currently available in preview but we already showed it at our ESPC workshop and a couple of other events. The feedback was quite good so we thought it would be a good idea to introduce the tool to a broader audience as well. So…

In Episode 10 Stephan, Appie and Rick talk about the FAQ Plus App Template from Microsoft. According to the Git repository the bot template is about: “FAQ Plus bot is a friendly Q&A bot that brings a human in the loop when it is unable to help.” Bots are not always the perfect match for every question. This template is a blueprint on how to add a pre-configured expert to the conversation in cases where the bot fails to provide a meaningful response.