You must provide your own laptop computer for this Hands-On Lab that can access Wi-Fi and access sites on the Internet including but not limited to visualstudio.com, azure.com, nuget.org, and github.com.

For this workshop you will need:

• A laptop of course 😉 With a Windows operating system that is compatible with Visual Studio 2017 or 2019. You will need to be a local administrator.
• You’ll need a copy of latest version of Visual Studio (any edition—Community, Professional, or Enterprise 2017 or 2019) with the following workloads installed: ASP.NET and web development and Azure development.
• Bot Framework v4 SDK Templates for Visual Studio
• .NET Core SDK version 2.1
• An Office 365 Developer Tenant
• An Azure Subscription Get a one for free or use the one you already have but you need to be an administrator and able to create resources in that subscription.
• Bot framework emulator
• ngrok

And you will need to have a basic understanding of Microsoft Visual C#, ASP.NET MVC, WEBAPI and basic understanding on Windows Azure Hosting.