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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

Edit: I was able to compile the Bot Builder code Bot Builder GitHub & connect it to my project so that I could debug. I found the error to be happening on line 157 of Microsoft.Bot.Builder.Dialogs.Adaptive.BeginSkill.cs code BeginSkill.cs.

This line is trying to get the SkillConversationFactoryBase out of the dialogContext.Context.TurnState. I'm investigating how I might add this so that it is populated when this code executes.

I'm trying to add authentication (and SSO) to my Virtual Assistant (+Skills) bot for Teams.

In this document they are using "Azure Active Directory" while creating the OAuth Connection.
So AAD v1 instead of v2, as used in other tutorials here and here.

Is there a reason for that?
Is it related to Teams?
Is v2 not supported by Teams?

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According to the documentation at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bot-service/bot-builder-virtual-assistant-template?view=azure-bot-service-4.0#content-moderator, content moderator is optional but enabled. It says "A middleware component is provided that screen texts and surfaces through a TextModeratorResult on the TurnState object." I see cognitive service for Content-moderator has been created and the secret key appears in the appsettings but startup does not instantate the object neither does the botservice.

But, I do not see any evidence of it in the code. Searching keys such as "TextModeratorResult", "TurnState", "contentModerator" does not return anything.

Is this something we need to instantiate? Are there any guidelines?

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What's the best way to proceed?

The goal is to use a release pipeline to automatically stand up the Azure resources required for the bot to function.

• Is there a way to use PowerShell 6+ using Azure PowerShell?
• Should we not use deploy.ps1 to deploy the resources in a DevOps release pipeline?

Here's the contents of deploy.ps1 and a link to the latest.

I've been doing a POC for Microsoft Virtual Assistant using their template as a base in c# (found here: https://github.com/microsoft/botframework-solutions). I've deployed my code to azure and added and deployed some skills and have been using the application in Bot Framework Emulator to test all successfully.

Now, I want to add a scenario where the user can use the the Virtual Assistant hands-free, using voice. I've been reading that the Direct Line Speech is the way to go for this but have been having some double getting started.

I've created a direct line speech channel in my azure webapp. Then I followed these guides: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bot-service/bot-service-channel-connect-directlinespeech?view=azure-bot-service-4.0 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/bot-service/directline-speech-bot?view=azure-bot-service-4.0

I feel like some information is missing since the direct line speech secret isn't mentioned at all in the 'Use Direct Line Speech in your bot' guide.

Anyone with any experience in this would be a major help, thank you very much.

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When I run it, it always keeps on saying "Reconnecting to server" without doing anything else. There is a microphone button which on pressing says I am listening but does nothing.

In the readme they have suggested to add Speech Channel secret to the DefaultConfiguration.java. There is no such variable defined in the DefaultConfiguration.java file.

I believe that we need to provide this directline speech channel secret somewhere for this sample client to run properly but could not find a place to add that.

Note, my Bot is running on the emulator as well as on the Web chat using directline speech. Thanks

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I have the following in the main dialog: