This repository is the home for a set of templates and solutions to help build conversational experiences using Azure Bot Service and Bot Framework.

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Name	Description
Virtual Assistant (Preview)	Customers and partners have a significant need to deliver a conversational assistant tailored to their brand, personalized to their users, and made available across a broad range of canvases and devices. This brings together all of the supporting components and greatly simplifies the creation of a new bot project including: basic conversational intents, Dispatch integration, QnA Maker, Application Insights and an automated deployment.
Skills (Preview).	Extend your assistant with reusable conversational Skills to add common functionality such as collection of re-usable conversational skills enabling you to add functionality to a Virtual Assistant. Try the sample Skills available like Calendar, Email, To Do, Point of Interest, and more.
Analytics	Gain key insights into your assistant’s health and behavior with the Bot Framework Analytics solutions, which includes: sample Application Insights queries and Power BI dashboards to understand the full breadth of your assistant's conversations with users.

Packages

.NET

Name	Released Package	Daily Build
Microsoft.Bot.Builder.Solutions (Preview)
Microsoft.Bot.Builder.Skills (Preview)

JS

Name	Released Package	Daily Build
botbuilder-solutions (Preview)		Link
botbuilder-skills (Preview)		Link
generator-botbuilder-assistant (Preview)		Link
botskills (Preview)		Link

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