Chatbots are the new mobile application. In this article, Nick demonstrates how you can integrate a bot right into your Universal Windows Platform app via the Microsoft Bot Framework Direct Line API.

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One of the more fascinating trends of this past year was the move to conversational computing. Instead of building complex apps, using bots over services like Facebook’s Messenger or Microsoft’s Skype ...

At its Build developer conference last year, Microsoft introduced the Bot Framework, offering developers the means to easily create interactive and 'intelligent' tools and assistants, as part of its ...

During the Build 2017 keynote on Wednesday, Harry Shum, executive vice president of Microsoft’s Artificial Intelligence and Research Group, detailed the company’s plans to bring artificial ...

Microsoft is getting wrapping up its big keynote for its annual developer conference Build, but there's still more news coming. The firm has announced the Bot Framework. The Bot Framework is a ...

There's no shortage of frameworks available for building chatbots (bots), and Microsoft has been working hard to ensure they make it easy for developers to build bots that work across a variety of ...