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Programming the Microsoft Bot Framework: A Multiplatform Approach to Building Chatbots
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Programming the Microsoft Bot Framework: A Multiplatform Approach to Building Chatbots

by Joe Mayo
November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
400 pages
13h 5m
English
Microsoft Press
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CHAPTER 6. Using FormFlow

In Chapter 5, you learned how to manage conversations with basic dialogs, IDialog<T>. This chapter continues the dialog discussion by introducing a different type of dialog, FormFlow. With an IDialog<T> dialog, you specify the flow of a conversation through a chain of methods where each method accepts an answer from its antecedent, and then asks another question until you’re finally at the end of the conversation. A FormFlow dialog is different, because rather than procedural logic, it’s more declarative. Essentially, you specify what you want the conversation to be, rather than how to perform the conversation.

To support the declarative nature of a FormFlow dialog, this chapter starts with the basics of how to create ...

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