Learn more about the latest changes to Web Chat or see the code samples. The new architecture includes enhanced authentication, persistent conversation history and allows developers to perform actions such as a transition to a different page. The placement of speech input and the order of messages can be controlled, and developers can add persistent menu buttons or introduce custom avatars. Based on customer feedback, the V4 release of the Web Chat control offers developers ability to fully customize the chat window, including ability to change colors, padding, sizes, and to brand the window with custom graphics and logos. Today, we are announcing general availability of Web Chat V4. The Web Chat control offers a quick way for developers to integrate their bots into existing websites. The Bot Framework Web Chat control is one of the popular conversational canvases used by the developers of Azure Bot Service.

Full control of user experience with general availability of Web Chat V4 Developers can directly log into Azure and open and manage Cognitive Services including Language Understanding (LUIS) and QnA Maker that are part of their bot. The Bot Framework Emulator V4 simplifies integration and management of the different services that are part of a conversational experience.

The Bot Framework Emulator includes features such as an improved user experience, faster load times, the ability to inspect responses from bot’s integrated services such as LUIS and QnA, support for multiple bot configurations, and bot debugging based on transcript logs and transcript playback in presentation mode. You can install the GA version from here. The Bot Framework Emulator is an open-source, cross-platform application for Mac, Windows, and Linux that enables bot developers to test and debug their conversational application on their local machine or in the cloud. Today, we are announcing the General Availability of Bot Framework Emulator V4. Streamline testing and integration using the Bot Framework Emulator With version 4.1 of the SDK and tools, the team is focusing on periodical releases of the SDK and tools. We are excited to announce the release of Bot Framework SDK version 4.1 that includes General Availability of the Bot Framework Emulator, the Web Chat V4, and version 4.1 of the C# and JavaScript SDKs.

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