Azure bot can't publish on skype

Question

I created a Bot on Azure Bot Framework and link it to Skype with out any issues. It works well when I add it to my contacts, but I would like to publish the bot to be able to add my bot to a Group. When i submit the request it returns:

Your bot did not respond to our Ping request with a success code. Please verify your bot is running and responsive before Publishing your bot. The error received from your bot was: InternalServerError(500), Internal Server Error

Does anyone know what is the issue here?

Answer 1

It might be caused by your code not handling correctly system messages.

The following is an example of a method for handling system messages, that should be called when message.Type == "Message" :

private Message HandleSystemMessage(Message message)
{
    if (message.Type == "Ping")
    {
        Message reply = message.CreateReplyMessage();
        reply.Type = "Ping";
        return reply;
    }
    else if (message.Type == "DeleteUserData")
    {
        // Implement user deletion here
        // If we handle user deletion, return a real message
    }
    else if (message.Type == "BotAddedToConversation")
    {
    }
    else if (message.Type == "BotRemovedFromConversation")
    {
    }
    else if (message.Type == "UserAddedToConversation")
    {
    }
    else if (message.Type == UserRemovedFromConversation")
    {
    }
    else if (message.Type == "EndOfConversation")
    {
    }
    return null;
}

Update

Instead of the message instance (depending if you are using .Net Core for example), try looking for an instance of Activity . You should see it as the parameter of your post method in your API controller.

Hope it helps!