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I got introduced to BOTBUILDER from one of the links shared in hacker-news.
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Run a bot locally Before connecting your bot to the Bot Framework Emulator, you need to run your bot locally. You can use Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code to run your bot, or use command line. To run a bot using command line, do the following: C#
The Azure Bot Service has now been Generally Available, which means they're providing a paid service with incurring subscription cost. The free tier, as you mentioned above, is capped at 10000 msgs/month. The previous Preview (or Beta) did provide the channels for free although they don't guarantee the SLA.
Microsoft released version 3 APIs and SDK with performance improvements and new features. Now Skype Bots are integrated in to it.
1. Developer resources
Getting Started Link
Bot Builder SDK (Open Source)
2. Do I Need to be aware of c#? Currently Bot Framework supports Node.js and C#.
3. You can publish your Bot service on any hosting server not just only on Azure. For testing you can publish it locally and test it with the help of Latest Bot Emulator.
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5. It has Rest API which allows your bot to send and receive messages to channels configured in the Bot Framework Developer Portal.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/bot-framework/rest-api/bot-framework-rest-overview
Currently WhatsApp not supporting Bots.
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Bot Framework information
Getting started with the Bot framework
It looks like you can also use NodeJS to build bots
More Frequently Asked Questions about the bot framework
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