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Posted by Tom on Sep 28, 2022 in Bot Framework

QnA Maker shutting doors for new instances, existing ones safe (for now)

We’ve known for a while that QnA Maker will be retired in 2025 in favour of Question Answering, part of Azure Cognitive Services. As part of that retirement...

Posted by Tom on Dec 15, 2020 in Bot Framework

Bot Framework Compose 1.3.0 released, with features to make you more productive building bots

The latest release of Bot Framework Composer is now available and brings a number of exciting new features. In fact, the December release of 1.3.0 is packed full: with...

Posted by Tom on Oct 15, 2020 in Bot Framework, Office365

I’m Speaking at: Virtual M365 Saturday Ottawa on Saturday

One of the surprise upsides of the current unpleasantness, is that so many events that would normally be in-person have gone online – giving me the opportunity to...

Posted by Tom on Jun 6, 2020 in Bot Framework, Everything Else

I’m Speaking at Commsverse July 7th 2020

I’m excited to be speaking for the first time this year at Commsverse. It’s not been the start to the conference season any of us planned for or wanted, but...

Posted by Tom on May 19, 2020 in Bot Framework, Development

News from Build 2020: Updates for Conversational AI, Alexa Support, Build sessions to watch

The Bot Framework team have been busy, with a bunch of announcements made at Build this year. The biggest one for me is that the Bot Framework Composer is now GA. Right...

Posted by Tom on Feb 8, 2020 in Bot Framework, Development

Bot Builder Community .NET Extensions v4.6.5 release, now with Adaptive Cards Prompt

The Bot Builder Community repo is a collection of useful extensions to Bot Framework. The .Net Extensions repo in particular contains adapters, middleware, dialogs,...

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Hi, I'm Tom. I'm a Microsoft 365 Developer & Architect. I empower developers, architects, and organizations to achive more with Microsoft 365 by creating applications and services with technologies like Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Bot Framework, Microsoft Copilot, Microsoft Graph, Adaptive Cards, and Office Add-Ins.

I'm passionate about creating great software that people will find useful and I want to help you do the same. This is my blog, you can find more about me, speaking engagements, code sample and more on my main site.

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