I have set up a microsoft bot to capture information on the users that add it to the contacts. I was able to start a new conversation when the skype user initiates conversation.
I do so with a trigger in the RootDialog.cs:
t = new Timer(new TimerCallback(timerEvent));
t.Change(5000, Timeout.Infinite);
this will initiate a new conversation after 5 ms.
Although this works, This is not what I want to achieve.
Besides the Bot API Controller I have another controller running in my program.
This api which does not use the [BothAuthentication] tag receives http post request from other systems.
These posts contain information that I then need to send to the user in skype.
Although, I am not able to pass information from one ApiController, that has nothing to do with a Bot Connector, to the Bot Controller which can actually send messages to a user.
What kind of a trigger can I use to fire the action in the bot controller to send the msg to the user I preconfigured? Can I have a list of request coming in from other systems and listen for events on the bot controller? if so how? I checked ObservableCollection but always associated with some Interface binding.
Or can I pass information from one controller to another?
Really appreciate the help.
You have to use Conversations.SendToConversationAsync. Check this.