Welcome to the Virtual Assistant Template

Come, introduce yourself to the Greater Granite State .NET dev community. You're invited to share tips and tricks with experts, including Microsoft employees and "Most Valuable Professionals" (MVPs), with tons of high-value, real-world experiences.

Thursday's topic:
"Welcome to the Virtual Assistant Template"

Retail, HR, Tech Support, Financial.... Need a professional chat bot for your customers, but don't know where to start? Start here. In this session, you'll be introduced to the Virtual Assistant Template, a Microsoft OSS project that enables you to kick-start an Azure Bot Framework-based ChatBot in minutes. Turn-key, Azure cloud-native, powered by Azure Cognitive Services, with full Azure DevOps support baked in. We'll spin up, build, test, deploy, and examine an original specimen instance in C# and .NET Core, with Visual Studio 2019 during this demo heavy session. Join professional bot builder Jim Wilcox, The Granite State Hacker, to give your growing bot the head-start it deserves.