I have started learning about notification hubs and have gone through some tutorials.
Now I need to send messages from my ASP.NET WebAPI 2 backend to the notification hub. So I decided to learn about the Notification Hubs Rest API.
On this link It is written that Microsoft already provides a .NET wrapper around the REST API in the Microsoft.ServiceBus.Notifications.NotificationHubClient on this page.
But on clicking the link it says topic is no longer available.
Now I need to learn about how to send push notifications from my asp.net web api backend and azure website seems to have only one tutorial which is this
So can someone please point out where is Microsoft.ServiceBus.Notifications.NotificationHubClient or some tutorials or other library if this one is outdated
is there a specific reason you want to implement the solution using REST API directly? I would not recommend that unless you have the reason. There is a Microsoft.Azure.NotificationHubs library that you can use for your Web API solution, and the tutorial you mentioned is the right one (you can install it using NuGet). For more fast proof of concept implementation, you can skip the authentication part here, however it is good one to know.
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I want to implement a health check on my MS Teams bot but it seems that support for that was removed on https://github.com/microsoft/botframework-sdk/issues/6225.
What is the best approach now to add a health check to my bot?
Thanks
There is no mechanism built into the Bot Framework SDK to accomplish this. You'd need to setup an API route in the bot, and have the other service call that endpoint. Depending on your security considerations you'd probably also want to authenticate that call in some manner.
At the end of the day, the bot is just a web service using some specialized API calls to model conversations - you can add any additional APIs you like just as you would with any other web service.
I am starting to develop a bot for Teams and I do not understand the various channel offerings. I know I need to add Microsoft Teams to the channel list in Azure for the bot to be able to message people through chat channels, but I can't figure out how to allow the bot to communicate with an API that is hosted in AWS. Maybe Direct Line is what I'm supposed to use, but the documentation is very unclear. Here is what I can find about Direct Line:
Direct Line. This is the standard channel offering of Direct Line. It works by default with bot templates via the Azure portal, bots from the Bot Builder Samples, and bots created with the Azure CLI. This is the Direct Line best suited in the majority of the cases. See Connect a bot to Direct Line.
If anything, I became more confused after reading that. It raises more questions than it answered. If Direct Line is supposed to allow me to communicate with third-party APIs, I don't know how to get started even if I enable it. The BotBuilder repository documentation does not mention Direct Line channels, at least not in an obvious way, so that hasn't been much help either.
I have very little clue about how this works even though I spent my whole day reading about it. Deploying a bot to Teams that can make a call to another API is much more difficult than I anticipated. All I want to do is say #bot command and have it call an API to make a GET request. Once I am able to do that, I will be able to develop the rest of the application, but using the requests module in Python has not worked and I don't know why.
Anything you can offer about how this should work would be greatly appreciated.
Direct Line, as the name implies, is a direct line of communication to an Azure bot. Essentially, it is a set of APIs that you can use to communicate with an Azure Bot outside the set of provided channels. If you are building a custom application that none of the other channels such as Web Chat, Teams, Email, etc. would be appropriate for, then you can use the Direct Line API to send and receive messages to and from a hosted bot with REST calls. The API reference in the documentation explains how to connect to and use Direct Line. You would implement these calls into your application as you would calls to any other REST API and display the responses in whatever manner fits your use case.
The key intuition here is that Direct Line is only for communicating with the bot. It has nothing to do with connecting to outside services. Communicating with 3rd party services would be accomplished in the same manner as any other application. I don't know how you've implemented your application or what service you're connecting to, but I would suggest you double check that your calls to that service work outside your bot using Postman or curl before attempting to implement them into the bot.
Your use case would appear to be the Microsoft Teams channel, and not Direct Line.
I'm not totally clear either on what Direct Line is for, but from what I can understand it would be if you want to include a bot experience in your own custom app, like a desktop app with a "chat" feature. It's definitely not needed for Teams though - you only need the Teams channel.
With regards calling an API from within your bot, essentially your bot is just a standard web service - it can do anything any other kind of web service / web api can do, e.g. calling a 3rd party API.
Helpers, I want to use Connect services with my DocuSign rest APIs integrated website. Could anyone help me out, Where can I get these in the GitHub? Basically the need is:
Once the document is fully executed, it will be routed via DocuSign connect to a folder which aligns with the name of the employee. This will require work on both the elected system as well as the DocuSign API to configure.
No problemo! These days, I suggest using an intermediate PaaS to queue and deliver the webhook notifications to your application which can live safely behind your firewall.
Here's a blog post on the technique. Note that we have PHP example software for this technique.
Once your PHP app is notified that an envelope is complete (fully signed), just download the documents from DocuSign and store them in your file system. Easy Peasy!
I am looking for a solution which has Customised Azure bot in website. I am not looking for an iFrame integration, As i have already explored. I need a solution which gives me an option to make UI changes in the bot window and invoke Live agent Chat window(Third party) from the existing Chatbot.
I tried these link below which dint help
https://github.com/Microsoft/BotFramework-WebChat
I understand exactly what you need.
It's true that the github url you pasted won't help but I know you'll get a lot of tips from the Direct Line and DirectLineJS documentation from the Advanced part.
You simply need a way to integrate to the Bot Framework from your existing UI system and hence using the Bot as just an Endpoint.
Your solution lies in the actual implementation methods for various channels that is supported by Bot Framework. Take Skype or Facebook for instance.
You need to study and configure WebHooks, Direct-Line Channels.
First: Use the Azure Portal to add a new website to your Bot in Channel property.
Secret Keys would be generated for you after then you can configure for version 1.1 or 3.0.
Check the Documentation here: https://learn.microsoft.com/bot-framework/rest-api/bot-framework-rest-direct-line-concepts
Now your site can be configured to talk to the Bot Framework via Web Clients and Sockets as API requests.
With these, you have the priviledge to use your own UI with the Bot Framework.
Has anyone worked with Salesforce mobilesdk for iOS and implemented push? Need some guidance? First of all are the services available in the SDK?
The Salesforce iOS SDK is just libraries to facilitate communications (via the REST API) and oAuth with Salesforce. For everything else you use the standard Apple libraries, so you'd use those to deal with push notifications. One thing I can recommend with regards to the Salesforce iOS stuff is to clone the git repository over using the package published on the developer blog, changes are still being made and so you need to stay up to date to avoid breakages.
Afraid I can't comment on generating push notifications on the Salesforce side, but I'd hazard a guess that you'll need to integrate with a third party or custom application via web services to achieve this.
The Salesforce Ios SDK helps in communication to salesaforce using REST APIs, to push and pull the data, rest all the things are done as normal push app does.
Mobile SDK can help in login, oAuth and to communicate with the SFDC objects. You need to implement Push Notification Services as any other iOS application does.
To post the notificaitons for any events from Salesforce you can use Urban Airship or Streaming API.
http://wiki.developerforce.com/page/Push_Notifications_for_Salesforce_Mobile_Apps_with_Urban_Airship