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Introduction to Direct Line and Direct Line prerequisites

Introduction to Direct Line and Direct Line prerequisites - Azure Tutorial

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Introduction to Direct Line and Direct Line prerequisites

- In this chapter, we will look at some of the key concepts related to Direct Line API. In certain scenarios, for example in testing, communication directly to your bot may be desired. Communication between your bot and your own client application can be performed using Direct Line API. We will begin this chapter by talking about what Direct Line is, how it can help in certain scenarios, and how you can also perform the communication between your customer application and your bot. We'll focus in the second half of this chapter on setting up things, configuring, and the communication aspects. With Direct Line, in certain situations you may need to call your bot directly from a customer application, a service, or a website. And the Direct Line API allows you to do this. In addition, you may also want to authenticate a user in your application, and securely communicate with the bot as that user. Once you have, say, a secure token or a secret key, you can then begin conversations, receive…

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