In order to be able to build bots for .Net using Microsoft Bot Framework, you will need the Bot Builder SDK for .Net. It is important to know that Visual Studio for Mac is not supported for now. You need Visual Studio for Windows.
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Visual Studio 2017 for Windows.
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Bot Application, Bot Controller and Bot Dialog .zip files.
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Bot Framework Emulator https://github.com/Microsoft/BotFramework-Emulator/releases/tag/v3.5.33
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In Visual Studio, update all extensions to the latest version.
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Install the templates by copying the Bot Application, Bot Controller and Bot Dialog .zip files to your Visual Studio 2017 project templates directory.
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