Todd @ Devdays in Amsterdam question (about bots on MSN)

Hi Todd,

On the devdays confernce today in Amsterdam you mentioned that to make a bot on MSN you could either go through the Partners, or you could also talk directly through MSN (but have some limitations then) and parse the send strings yourself.

Now browsing the forums and the messages about the Bots I see no where mentioned that you can also do it yourself WITHOUT using these partner platforms.

Could you clarify how and where I could download an SDK to talk directly to MSN myself and setup a bot

Thanks in advance,

Reinier v Vliet

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Todd @ Devdays in Amsterdam question (about bots on MSN)

Andy K Smith
There is no SDK to talk directly to Messenger. SDK's are the platforms you'll find on The partners' websites. If you want to talk directly to MSN you need to connect to the messenger servers with your own sockets, but this is not supported by Microsoft. If you'd still like to talk to MSN directly, I recommend you to search the internet for 'msn messenger protocol'.
Luke Waters
Hi, yes, when you're building a bot on MSN, you need to use the tools that have been built by one of our existing partners and certified by MSN. There's another thread that details the list of partners, and some news about free tools provided by one of the partners. It sounds like I should have been clearer during the presentaiton at DevDays in Amsterdam.

If you develop you bot or hopefully bot + activity, you can request to have it provisioned on the network (the reverse limitation removed, so over 1,000 people can add it to their contact list), through submitting it to our bot provisioning bot botprovision@hotmail.com.

I hope this helps and I apologise for any confusion at Dev Days.

Todd
Balasaheb
just installed and played with the ConverseAgent API. Nice patternmatching language. (If you need it).

But it strikes me as silly, that if you don't need the natural language pattern matching stuff they made, that you still need to use their API.

We are just interested in the raw string one gets from the MSNuser (or another bot), nothing more. All the rest (the patternmatching stuff) is just excess bagage.

Considering you'd even have to pay for using their middlewareserver, which adds nothing when you're only interested in the raw string does't make sense.

Reinier
MartinPar&#233;
hmmm

I can distinctly remembering Todd saying this,and he didn't mention using reverse engineered tacticts to tackle this. But you might be right that he was just making a point why we should use the partners.

When the slides of the show become available I'llsee if something was mentioned on them as well.

thanks,

Reinier
Todd @ Devdays in Amsterdam question (about bots on MSN)

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