Sending an Adaptive Card on bot startup as the welcome message

Question

I have some code for the bot to send a message (string) on start up.

However, instead of sending text like you see in the code below. I am trying to figure out how you would send an Adaptive Card in this case. I have sent a Card from the RootDialog before, but not from the MessageController.cs. Any direction would be great here!

else if (message.Type == ActivityTypes.ConversationUpdate)
            {
                // Handle conversation state changes, like members being added and removed
                // Use Activity.MembersAdded and Activity.MembersRemoved and Activity.Action for info
                // Not available in all channels

                IConversationUpdateActivity iConversationUpdated = message as IConversationUpdateActivity;
                if (iConversationUpdated != null)
                {
                    ConnectorClient connector = new ConnectorClient(new System.Uri(message.ServiceUrl));

                    foreach (var member in iConversationUpdated.MembersAdded ?? System.Array.Empty<ChannelAccount>())
                    {
                        // if the bot is added, then
                        if (member.Id == iConversationUpdated.Recipient.Id)
                        {
                            var reply = ((Activity)iConversationUpdated).CreateReply($"WELCOME MESSAGE HERE");
                            await connector.Conversations.ReplyToActivityAsync(reply);
                        }
                    }
                }
            }

Thanks

Answer 1

Using the code snippet you provided you should be able to copy and paste this to replace it. More information about cards in bot framework can be found in this blog

       else if (message.Type == ActivityTypes.ConversationUpdate)
        {
            IConversationUpdateActivity iConversationUpdated = message as IConversationUpdateActivity;
            if (iConversationUpdated != null)
            {
                ConnectorClient connector = new ConnectorClient(new System.Uri(message.ServiceUrl));

                foreach (var member in iConversationUpdated.MembersAdded ?? System.Array.Empty<ChannelAccount>())
                {
                    // if the bot is added, then
                    if (member.Id == iConversationUpdated.Recipient.Id)
                    {

                        Activity replyToConversation = message.CreateReply("Should go to conversation");
                        replyToConversation.Attachments = new List<Attachment>();

                        AdaptiveCard card = new AdaptiveCard();

                        // Specify speech for the card.
                        card.Speak = "<s>Your  meeting about \"Adaptive Card design session\"<break strength='weak'/> is starting at 12:30pm</s><s>Do you want to snooze <break strength='weak'/> or do you want to send a late notification to the attendees?</s>";

                        // Add text to the card.
                        card.Body.Add(new TextBlock()
                        {
                            Text = "Adaptive Card design session",
                            Size = TextSize.Large,
                            Weight = TextWeight.Bolder
                        });
                        // Add text to the card.
                        card.Body.Add(new TextBlock()
                        {
                            Text = "Conf Room 112/3377 (10)"
                        });
                        // Add text to the card.
                        card.Body.Add(new TextBlock()
                        {
                            Text = "12:30 PM - 1:30 PM"
                        });
                        // Add list of choices to the card.
                        card.Body.Add(new ChoiceSet()
                        {
                            Id = "snooze",
                            Style = ChoiceInputStyle.Compact,
                            Choices = new List<Choice>()
                            {
                                new Choice() { Title = "5 minutes", Value = "5", IsSelected = true },
                                new Choice() { Title = "15 minutes", Value = "15" },
                                new Choice() { Title = "30 minutes", Value = "30" }
                            }
                        });
                        // Add buttons to the card.
                        card.Actions.Add(new HttpAction()
                        {
                            Url = "http://foo.com",
                            Title = "Snooze"
                        });
                        card.Actions.Add(new HttpAction()
                        {
                            Url = "http://foo.com",
                            Title = "I'll be late"
                        });
                        card.Actions.Add(new HttpAction()
                        {
                            Url = "http://foo.com",
                            Title = "Dismiss"
                        });
                        // Create the attachment.
                        Attachment attachment = new Attachment()
                        {
                            ContentType = AdaptiveCard.ContentType,
                            Content = card
                        };
                        replyToConversation.Attachments.Add(attachment);

                        var reply = await connector.Conversations.SendToConversationAsync(replyToConversation);
                    }
                }
            }
        }