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# Office 365 AI Fundamentals Workshop - Prerequisites

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](https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/) (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](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=BotBuilder.botbuilderv4)
- [.NET Core SDK](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download) version 2.1
- [An Office 365 Developer Tenant](https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/office/dev-program)
- An Azure Subscription [Get a one for free](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/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](https://github.com/Microsoft/BotFramework-Emulator/blob/master/README.md#download)
- [ngrok](https://ngrok.com/)

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