Additionally, one of the users pointed out that a GitHub commit was pushed by the "azure-sdk" bot and added the alexbirsantest package to the CSV file supposedly used for populating the Microsoft ...

The Bot Framework SDK also is better integrated with Microsoft Teams now, officials said. Last but not least, Microsoft has enabled the Bot Framework (using the SDK 4.8 or later) to connect to Alexa.

Both of these capabilities are currently in preview. The Azure Bot Framework SDK now has an enhanced Teams experience, and its Composer tool has been made generally available as well.

Microsoft’s Azure Bot Service has now been used by almost 300,000 developers. That’s up from 240,000 in December 2017, a Microsoft spokesperson told VentureBeat in an email. The new figure was ...

A typical Azure Bot Service provisioning process includes choosing the type of bot, subscription, location, language SDK (C# or Node.js), pricing tier, and bot template, which can be language ...

In a July update, Microsoft released Bot Framework SDK 4.5 and a preview of v4.6, along with updated tools and Azure Bot Service channels for building intelligent, enterprise-grade bots. The update ...

Microsoft announced the Azure Bot Service preview on November 15. The service is built on Azure Functions, its serverless compute service, which allows bots to scale on demand.

Microsoft introduced the Azure Bot Framework more than two years ago and companies have been building chatbots for a variety of scenarios ever since. Today, the company made generally available ...

[Click on image for larger view.] Microsoft Bot Framework (source: Microsoft). "Addressing customers' and developers' ask for better testing tools, the July version of the SDK introduces a new unit ...