Overview

Bot Builder samples are organized into groups and designed to illustrate task-focused samples in C# and Node.js to help you build great bots! To use the samples clone our GitHub repository using Git.

git clone https://github.com/Microsoft/BotBuilder-Samples.git
cd BotBuilder-Samples

Core

These examples show the basic techniques needed to build a great bot.

Sample	Description	C#	Node
Send Attachment	A sample bot that passes simple media attachments (images) to a user activity.	View Sample	View Sample
Receive Attachment	A sample bot that receives attachments sent by the user and downloads them.	View Sample	View Sample
Create New Conversation	A sample bot that starts a new conversation using a previously stored user address.	View Sample	View Sample
Get Members of a Conversation	A sample bot that retrieves the conversation's members list and detects when it changes.	View Sample	View Sample
Direct Line	A sample bot and a custom client communicating to each other using the Direct Line API.	View Sample	View Sample
Direct Line (WebSockets)	A sample bot and a custom client communicating to each other using the Direct Line API + WebSockets.	View Sample	View Sample
Multi Dialogs	A sample bot showing different kind of dialogs.	View Sample	View Sample
State API	A stateless sample bot tracking context of a conversation.	View Sample	View Sample
Custom State API	A stateless sample bot tracking context of a conversation using a custom storage provider.	View Sample	View Sample
ChannelData	A sample bot sending native metadata to Facebook using ChannelData.	View Sample	View Sample
AppInsights	A sample bot which logs telemetry to an Application Insights instance.	View Sample	View Sample

Cards

These examples emphasize the rich card support in Bot Framework.

Sample	Description	C#	Node
Rich Cards	A sample bot to renders several types of cards as attachments.	View Sample	View Sample
Carousel of Cards	A sample bot that sends multiple rich card attachments in a single message using the Carousel layout.	View Sample	View Sample

Intelligence

Build bots with powerful algorithms using Bing & Microsoft Cognitive Services APIs.

Sample	Description	C#	Node
LUIS	A sample bot using LuisDialog to integrate with a LUIS.ai application.	View Sample	View Sample
Image Caption	A sample bot that gets an image caption using Microsoft Cognitive Services Vision API.	View Sample	View Sample
Speech To Text	A sample bot that gets text from audio using Bing Speech API.	View Sample	View Sample
Similar Products	A sample bot that finds visually similar products using Bing Image Search API.	View Sample	View Sample
Zummer	A sample bot that finds wikipedia articles using Bing Search API	View Sample	View Sample

Demo

These are bots designed to showcase end-to-end sample scenarios. They're great sources of code fragments if you're looking to have your bot lightup more complex features.

Sample	Description	C#	Node
Contoso Flowers	A reference implementation using many features from BotFramework.	View Sample	View Sample
Azure Search	Two sample bots that help the user navigate large amounts of content.	View Samples	View Samples