How to switch Dialogs in BotFramework SDK3 C# - botframework

I'm trying to add a timeout Dialog using proactiveMessages. If user doesn't reply to [A dialog], [timeout dialog] comes out. So I think timeout dialog should be the current dialog. But do I to close other dialog [A dialog]?
According this, it seems context.EndConversation was not working in MS Teams. Of course I have tried again. It is still not working.
I also tried the way below. But it seems not working either.
using (var scope = DialogModule.BeginLifetimeScope(Conversation.Container, context.Activity.AsMessageActivity()))
{
var botData = scope.Resolve<IBotData>();
await botData.LoadAsync(default(CancellationToken));
var stack = scope.Resolve<IDialogStack>();
stack.Reset();
await botData.FlushAsync(default(CancellationToken));
}
Any suggestions about changing the dialog?

There are two methods of redirecting dialog flow within a C# bot.
you can use context.Forward() to send a user to a new dialog starting with a message that you are currently processing:
await context.Forward(new NewOrderDialog(), this.ResumeAfterNewOrderDialog, message, CancellationToken.None);
or you can use context.call() to send a user to a new dialog and start from scratch there:
context.Call(new AgeDialog(this.name), this.AgeDialogResumeAfter);
The "ResumeAfter" functions can be defined anywhere (including a function within the new dialog itself) and setting these to where you would like to redirect the user after they have finished with your timeout dialog will allow you to determine the flow.

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Outlook Add-in that just directs to a website

I want to program a simple Outlook add-in that opens a browser and take the user to a specific site.
I've had a look at using Yeoman, but this add-in opens a task pane where I'm just looking to take that single actions.
Is there a simple way to do this?
EDIT:
I managed to get this done, but I not have the following issue: I have a single button (via Yeoman's generator) that when clicked executes the following:
function action(event) {
const message = {
type: Office.MailboxEnums.ItemNotificationMessageType.InformationalMessage,
message: "Window opened.",
icon: "Icon.80x80",
persistent: true,
};
// Show a notification message
window.open("https://myurl.com");
Office.context.mailbox.item.notificationMessages.replaceAsync("action", message);
// Be sure to indicate when the add-in command function is complete
event.completed();
}
I get the following error in Outlook itself:
We deployed the app using the MS 365 admin center, but I'm not sure if there is something additional that I need to do in this case to run the webserver?
There is an Office.js API that will open a browser window:
Office.ui.openBrowserWindow( -- URL string here -- );
This will cause the computers default browser to open to the specified URL. You could have a button in the task pane whose handlers calls this method. Alternatively, you could have a custom button on the ribbon that calls a FunctionFile that calls this method.
If you want to display any web site to the user as a result of the button click or some action on the pane, try doing window.open('https://yoursite.com'). This should work if the domain is whitelisted in your manifest. For example:
function redirectFunction() {
window.open("https://othersite.com")
//window.location.href = "https://othersite.com";
}

MAPI showing details of contacts

We are currently using MAPI to load contact information into a form.
Within a MapiSession we are creating a RDOAddressEntry "recepient" with this bit of code
using (MapiSession session = new MapiSession())
{
//open outlook contact dialog
RDOAddressEntry recipient = session.GetAddressEntryFromID(contact.EntryId);
if (recipient.Type == null)
{
throw new ArgumentException("type not defined");
}
recipient.Details(handle.ToInt32());
}
Our problem seems to be that the dialog that opens with the last line of code creates two different dialogs. One for exchange contacts and another one for SMTP contacts.
In the last version of our application it was always opening the same dialog for both RDOAddressEntry-types and we did NOT change anything in our code...
Can you help me fix this issue so that both SMTP and exchange will bring the same dialogs again?
I am not sure why you were getting the same dialog for both before - the dialog is actually provided by the particular address book provider, so it will be different for the entries from different providers.

Is there any better way to launch outlook add-appointment window in bot application?

I need to launch outlook calendar appointment in bot application. I found the below code in Microsoft documentation for launching outlook email.
var message = context.MakeMessage() as IMessageActivity;
message.ChannelData = JObject.FromObject(new
{
action = new { type = "LaunchUri", uri = "mailto:someone#example.comsubject=This%20is%20the%20subject&body=This%20is%20t e%20body"
}
});
await context.PostAsync(message);
And also i tried the Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook to add appointment , it also doesn't work for me.
Outlook.Application outlookApp = new Outlook.Application(); // creates new outlook app
Outlook.AppointmentItem oAppointment = (Outlook.AppointmentItem)outlookApp.CreateItem(Outlook.OlItemType.olAppointmentItem); // creates a new appointment
oAppointment.Subject = apt.Subject;
oAppointment.Body = apt.Body;
oAppointment.Location = apt.Location;
oAppointment.Start = Convert.ToDateTime(apt.StartTime);
oAppointment.End = Convert.ToDateTime(apt.EndTime);
Is there any better way to launch outlook calendar appointment.
Your code must call oAppointment.Save.
What exactly are you trying to do? Silently create an appointment (then you code above needs to call oAppointment.Save) or display it to the user (then call oAppointment.Display)?
If your code is running on a server, create an iCal file and let the user download and open in (local) Outlook - it will be happy to display the appointment.
Steve mentioned you could use Microsoft Graph.
You might be able to send an ics file as a media attachment (I haven't tried).
Or you can investigate if the protocol handler outlookcal: supports deep linking.
I think this link tells you how it works in Teams
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/platform/concepts/deep-links

How do I debug channel data in bot framework?

I have a bot where I've recently started passing channel data (user info) in from my directline client but now this makes it really hard to debug/test code that relies on this channel data.
Is there a way to have the Bot Framework Emulator send channel data or is there a better way to debug in this situation?
Emulator doesn't have an easy, built-in way to send custom channelData. There's a few different ways you can (kind of) do this, though:
Debug Locally
As #EricDahlvang mentioned (I forgot about this), you can debug any channel locally
WebChat
Emulator is built in WebChat, so the output will be the exact same. However, you miss some of the debugging functionality from Emulator.
Clone a WebChat Sample
Edit index.html with http://localhost:3978/api/messages and your channelData
Run npx serve
Navigate to http://localhost:5000
Modify Messages In OnTurnAsync()
This would only be for testing/mocking purposes and you'd want to ensure this doesn't go into production, but you can modify incoming messages inside OnTurnAsync() and manually add the channelData.
Something like:
public async Task OnTurnAsync(ITurnContext turnContext, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default(CancellationToken))
{
var activity = turnContext.Activity;
activity.ChannelData = new
{
testProperty = "testValue",
};
You could even make it happen with only specific messages, with something like:
if (turnContext.Activity.Text == "change channel data")
{
activity.ChannelData = new
{
testProperty = "testValue",
};
}
There's a lot of different options with this one, you just need to make sure it doesn't go into production.

Using MS Teams as Channel: Authentification Dialog (GetTokenDialog class from Microsoft.Bot.Builder.Dialogs) doesn't popup

How can I use the new authentification feature in Bot Builder with MS Teams?
There seems to be an issue with Teams (see Login user with MS Teams bot or https://github.com/Microsoft/BotBuilder/issues/2104), seems if this is not considered in GetTokenDialog?
Is there any chance to get around this?
Just found the reason why it won't work with Teams. In method Microsoft.Bot.Connector.Activity.CreateOAuthReplyAsync(), Parameter asSignInCard has to be set to True for MSTeams, then, the line new CardAction() { Title = buttonLabel, Value = link, Type = ActionTypes.Signin } has to be changed to new CardAction() { Title = buttonLabel, Value = link, Type = ActionTypes.OpenUrl } because MS Teams can obviously not deal with Action type Signin. Hope, the MS developers will fix that method soon.
There are a few things you need to do to get this to work. First you need to create a manifest file for your bot in teams and whitelist token.botframework.com. That is the first problem.
From teams itself in AppStudio you create a Manifest. I had to play around with this a little bit. In AppDetails... Let it generate a new ID. Just hit the button. The URLs really don't matter much for testing. The package name just needs to be unique so something like com.ilonatag.teams.test
In the bots section you plug in your MS AppId and a bot name. This is a the real MSAPPID from your bots MicrosoftAppId" value=" from web.config in your code.
Ok now in "finish->valid domains" I added token.botframework.com and also the URL for my bot just in case. so something like franktest.azurewebsites.net
This part is done but you are not quite done... in your messages controller you need to add this since Teams sends a different verification than the other clients.
if (message.Type == ActivityTypes.Invoke)
{
// Send teams Invoke along to the Dialog stack
if (message.IsTeamsVerificationInvoke())
{
await Conversation.SendAsync(message, () => new Dialogs.RootDialog());
}
}
It took me a bunch of going back and forth with Microsoft to get this sorted out.
This is a known problem using OAuthCard in MS Teams. To solve it, you can change the Button ActionType from signIn to openUrl using this solution on github

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