This document discusses how to build a proactive bot using the Microsoft Bot Framework. It provides prerequisites including Visual Studio 2017, an Azure subscription, and Bot Framework fundamentals. It explains that a proactive bot can initiate conversations with users by responding to state changes captured in an Azure Storage Queue triggered by an Azure Function using the Bot Framework and Direct Line API. The document includes a demo source code link, debugging steps using ngrok, and a 5-step process for creating a proactive bot along with contact information for questions.

1. Srikanth Machiraju
Senior Consultant | Author | Blogger
Microsoft, Hyderabad
Proactive Bot
Build Proactive Bot using MS Bot framework
www.linkedin.com/in/vishsrik

2. Prerequisites
• Visual Studio 2017 (Free Edition)
• Microsoft Azure Subscription (Free Trial)
• Fundamentals of Building Bot (Documentation)

3. Proactive Bot
User Bot
Initiates
Conversation
Bot Responds
Bot Notifies

4. Proactive Bot Design
Azure Storage QueueAzure Function Bot framework + Direct Line API

5. Proactive Bot Design

6. DEMO
Source Code:
https://github.com/vishwanathsrikanth/mycode/tree/master/SimpleProactiveBot

7. DEBUG
https://ngrok.com/download

8. Steps to create a proactive Bot
Create a normal
Bot
1
Publish and
Configure Direct
Line API channel
2
Capture the state
change to a
Storage Queue
3
Create Azure
Function with
Queue Trigger and
Bot framework
4
Use Trigger event
to respond to the
User proactively
5

9. Q & A
vism@microsoft.com