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# Alexa Skill .Net

Project Template for Visual Studio 2017 for creating an Alexa Skill in .NET


# Introduction

Please download the [latest version](https://github.com/tsjdev-apps/AlexaSkillNet/raw/master/Releases/latest/Alexa%20Skill%20.Net.zip) of the template and place the `zip` file into your `ProjectTemplates` folder.

Normally this folder should be located here: `%userprofile%\documents\Visual Studio 2017\Templates\ProjectTemplates`


# Latest Version

Latest Version can be downloaded [here](https://github.com/tsjdev-apps/AlexaSkillNet/raw/master/Releases/latest/Alexa%20Skill%20.Net.zip)


# Features

## since version 1
* AWS Lambda Project (.NET Core)
* Nuget package [Alexa.Net](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Alexa.NET/)
* Extensions Methods for `Enumerable`
* `MessagesService` to get randomly picked message
* Preparations to handle required intents like `AMAZON.StopIntent`, `AMAZON.CancelIntent`, `AMAZON.HelpIntent` and `LaunchRequest`

## since version 2
* Nuget package [Newtonsoft.JSON](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Newtonsoft.Json/)
* `HttpService` to make web requests
* Extensions Methods for `object`, `string` and `Enumerable`

## since version 3
* `ResponseService` to create different types of Skill responses
* `EmbeddedResourceService` to read an embedded `json` file

## since version 4
* Update of [Alexa .NET NuGet Package](https://www.nuget.org/packages/Alexa.NET/) to version 1.3.0

## since version 5
* Update of Nuget packages to the latest versions
* Split `AMAZON.StopIntent` and `AMAZON.CancelIntent` messages
* Introduce the option to reply with cards or directives