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I am working on creating a workflow which allows composer created dialogs to be integrated into a bot skill project.

To accomplish this I am trying to follow the instructions in this post: https://microsoft.github.io/botframework-solutions/skills/handbook/experimental-add-composer/

My composer created dialogs including calling a skill. When I initiate that intent through the Bot Emulator I get this error: System.NullReferenceException: 'Unable to locate SkillConversationIdFactoryBase in HostContext'

The setup to get to this error is time consuming so I have created a git repo which can be started fairly easily to demonstrate the issue.

The project can be found here: https://github.com/silverbulletgt/Integrate-Composer-Dialog-Using-Skill

To recreate the issue:

Prerequisites

Install Bot Emulator: https://github.com/Microsoft/BotFramework-Emulator/blob/master/README.md

Open the solution file in visual studio Integrate-Composer-Dialog-Using-Skill.sln

Put a breakpoint on line 72 of DefaultAdapter.cs - this is where the error can be seen

Start debugging the project

Open Bot Emulator

Connect to the bot: http://localhost:3978/api/messages

Type "Greeting"

Bot should respond with "Hello, I have recognized that you said greeting" - This means that the composer dialog integration is working as expected.

Type "Skill"

The breakpoint on line 72 of DefaultAdapter.cs should trigger giving details of the error.

Error & stack trace can be found here: https://github.com/silverbulletgt/Integrate-Composer-Dialog-Using-Skill/blob/master/Readme/error%20stack%20trace.txt

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Why does the below fail?

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Describe your bot here and your terms of use etc.

Visit Bot Framework to register your bot. When you register it, remember to set your bot's endpoint to

https://your_bots_hostname/api/messages.

And I have downloaded botframework-emulator 3.5.29 and installed. On the emulator i have entered http://localhost:3979/api/messages/ and left the App Id & App Password fields as empty. everything was looks fine. But when i type any message on the emulator I am getting Couldn't send retry notification on emulator.

Please can anyone help me on this.

Thanks,

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• You can find the botFilePath and botFileSecret in the Azure App Service application settings.

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