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rcharbon · Mar 31, 2025

If one more MVP, Microsoft Support Specialist, or other supposed M$ representative suggests running SFC or reinstalling Windows when someone has a problem, I might scream. Has anyone ever received a reply from a semi-official representative that shows any insight at all?

:)

Brink · Mar 31, 2025

Microsoft Bot Framework July 2016 Update

The industry is abuzz with news about bots and bot events. Of recent note, the Botness conference was a resounding success as was the Skype Hackathon held June 21-22 in the Valley. The energy and participation at these events has been inspiring and invigorating!

Today, we are releasing an important update to the Bot Framework developed largely in response to feedback received from the active Bot Framework community. The update is focused on quality, schema features, and performance. Enhancements include:

Well-defined support for cards and carousels for both channels that support them natively (Skype, Facebook) and text-rendered for those that don’t;

Automatic configuration of Skype – no copy-and-paste needed!

Simplified addressing of users and groups;

Additional dialog types and capabilities in the Bot Builder SDK;

Added Cognitive Services LUIS Intent Dialog type to the SDK;

Support for Skype calling features added to the SDK;

Enhancements to the Bot Framework Emulator;

Support for Slack’s recent addition of buttons; and

Support for many of Facebook’s newest Bot features.

These improvements come with some changes to the API/SDK that will impact your bot.

To take advantage of the new features, you’ll need to update your bot. For most bots, the changes will be straightforward. Existing bots will continue to run for some time, however, we encourage you to update your Bot to the new release.

For a step-by-step guide to upgrading your bot please visit the documentation at https://docs.botframework.com.

We’ve also updated our terms of use. By continuing to use the Microsoft Bot Framework you agree to the online services agreement and code of conduct. We’re excited to provide this update, and acknowledge the inconvenience of revising the protocol. Thank you for your continued engagement with Bot Framework and in helping us to make a better way for you to build, deploy and publish high-quality bots for your users wherever they converse.

For more Bot related news from Microsoft, check out the Skype blog.
Keep on botting!

The Microsoft Bot Framework Team
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Source: Microsoft Bot Framework July Update - Cards, and New Skype, Slack, and Facebook Bot Features | Blog | Bot Framework

See also: Skype Bot developer update: cards, groups and more - Skype Blogs

Brink · Mar 31, 2025

Microsoft readies Python, Java support for its bot-building framework

Two years ago at its Build developer conference, Microsoft made a big push for its bot development tools and the idea of "conversation as a service." Since then, things have gone a bit quiet.

But it seems like Microsoft is ready to ramp up its bot-building tools and messaging in the coming few months.

Microsoft is working on v4 of its Bot Builder software development kit and has open sourced that SDK, as noted by Gary Pretty, Technical Strategist at Mando and Microsoft AI Most Valuable Professional (MVP). And both Python and Java support are coming to this version of the SDK, alongside existing C#, .NET and JavaScript options. (The Python and Java GitHub pages are not yet live, as Pretty notes.)
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Read more: Microsoft readies Python, Java support for its bot-building framework | ZDNet

See also: What’s next for the Microsoft Bot Framework? | What Gary Pretty

Nikhar_K · Mar 31, 2025

WhAt does bot. On bot. Mean. Anyway?

Hi,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

Based on the description, I am assuming that you want to create bots. However, for better clarity, please let us know:

When you say, “bot. On bot” are you referring to creating a bot?

If you want to create and deploy a bot, you may want to refer the article on

Tutorial: Create and deploy a basic bot.

For additional information, see
Bot Framework Frequently Asked Questions and

How bots work.

If you have a Microsoft Azure account, you can contact the
Azure support team as well.

Regards,

Nikhar Khare

Microsoft Community - Moderator

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