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Roll your own C# Jabber chatbot

using agsXMPP and AIMLBot.

Here is a very quick and dirty tutorial about how to use these libraries to build a Jabber chatbot in C#. Since Google Talk came out, Jabber and the XMPP protocol have received more attention and are being used more and more. Who doesn’t have a gmail account?

WARNING/PREREQUISITES: You should be experienced with C# and using agsXMPP/AIML

After downloading and compiling the agsXMPP and AIMLBot,add them as References to your bot project:

Initialize AIMLBot :

AIMLbot.Bot myBot = new AIMLbot.Bot();myBot.loadSettings();myBot.loadAIMLFromFiles();

Response chat message in XmppClientConnection’s OnMessage Event:

AIMLbot.Request request = new Request(msg.Body, GetUser(msg.From.Bare), myBot);AIMLbot.Result reply = myBot.Chat(request);agsXMPP.protocol.client.Message replyMsg = new agsXMPP.protocol.client.Message();replyMsg.Type = MessageType.chat;replyMsg.To = msg.From;replyMsg.Body = reply.Output; 

XmppCon.Send(replyMsg); 

a simple implementation of GetUser:

protected AIMLbot.User GetUser(String jid){   Hashtable myHash = Hashtable.Synchronized(userSessions);   AIMLbot.User user = (AIMLbot.User)myHash[jid];   if (user == null)   {       user = new AIMLbot.User(jid, myBot);       myHash[jid] = user;   }   return user;} 

that’s all,it’s really easy and simple,huh?

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