How To Create ChatBot In Xamarin

Introduction

The Bot Framework runs inside Skype, web chat, Facebook, Message, etc. Users can interact with bots by sending them messages, commands, and inline requests. You control your bots using HTTPS requests to the bot API.

In this article, we will learn how to integrate a bot right into our Xamarin.Forms application via the Microsoft Bot Framework Web bots.

Create a new Bot application

You can read my previous article for Getting Started with Bots Using Visual Studio 2017.


Publish Bot Application to Azure

You can read my previous article for publishing bot application to Azure.

Generate Web Chat Code

After publishing your bots into Azure, you can generate web Chat HTML code from bots portal as shown below.

Step 1

Sign into the Bot framework portal.

Step 2

Click "My Bots".

Step 3

Select your bot that you want to generate code for.

Step 4

Click on "Get bot embed Codes" > Web Chat > "Click here to open Web Chat configuration page".



Step 5

It will navigate to a new web page for configuration. Click on " Add New Site" > Provide site or application name > Click on "Done".



Step 6

You can copy your secret keys and embed code for integrating to Xamarin.Forms application.



Create a new Xamarin .Forms Application