Opinion Poll Bot | Part 1 | Setup the Development Environment | Microsoft Bot Framework

person dropping paper on box

This is the bot series on Opinion Poll Bot. This bot will allow you to create polls and get the opinion on the polls from the users. In this part, we will set up our development environment.

Pre-requisites

  1. Visual Studio
  2. Bot Framework v4 Templates
  3. Bot Emulator

Above requirements links are available in Downloads page.

Creating a Core Bot project in Visual Studio

Kindly watch the below video or refer to the blog to create a Core Bot project using the templates. Will be continuing from the created core bot project. I have used the Core Bot template with .NET Core 3.1 version.

I will be giving the project name as OpinionPollBot. You can give any name you like for your requirement.

Editing the Project Structure

Remove the following files and folder which are not required for our requirement –

  • BookingDetails.cs
  • FlightBookingRecognizer.cs
  • BookingDialog.cs
  • CancelAndHelpDialog.cs
  • DateResolverDialog.cs
  • CognitiveModels Folder

Remove the following lines of code from Startup.cs

// Register LUIS recognizer
services.AddSingleton<FlightBookingRecognizer>();
  
// Register the BookingDialog.
services.AddSingleton<BookingDialog>();

Remove all the method content from all methods in MainDialog.cs. Also, remove the imports which are showing error. Ignore the error for methods where return statements are missing. Below is what the MainDialog class will look like after the above removal.

public class MainDialog : ComponentDialog
    {
        protected readonly ILogger Logger;
  
        // Dependency injection uses this constructor to instantiate MainDialog
        public MainDialog(ILogger<MainDialog> logger)
            : base(nameof(MainDialog))
        {
            Logger = logger;
  
            AddDialog(new TextPrompt(nameof(TextPrompt)));
            AddDialog(new WaterfallDialog(nameof(WaterfallDialog), new WaterfallStep[]
            {
                IntroStepAsync,
                ActStepAsync,
                FinalStepAsync,
            }));
  
            // The initial child Dialog to run.
            InitialDialogId = nameof(WaterfallDialog);
        }
  
        private async Task<DialogTurnResult> IntroStepAsync(WaterfallStepContext stepContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
        {
             return null;
        }
  
        private async Task<DialogTurnResult> ActStepAsync(WaterfallStepContext stepContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
        {
             return null;
        }
  
        private async Task<DialogTurnResult> FinalStepAsync(WaterfallStepContext stepContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
        {
             // Restart the main dialog with a different message the second time around
            var promptMessage = "What else can I do for you?";
            return await stepContext.ReplaceDialogAsync(InitialDialogId, promptMessage, cancellationToken);
        }
    }

Have a look at the starter template for any use case on GitHub. In the next part, we will create a welcome card for our bot.

Thank you All!!! Hope you find this useful.

One thought on “Opinion Poll Bot | Part 1 | Setup the Development Environment | Microsoft Bot Framework”

Add yours

  1. Pingback: Collect & Validate User Details using Microsoft Bot Framework using C# - JD Bots

Up ↑

%d bloggers like this: