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I am building a bot with Bot Framework, that is supposed to run in MS Teams and I want it to send me a message every day at 6:30 in the morning.

I have a method that is called every day at 6:30 inside the Program file.
And I have a method that sends a message from the bot.

This is the code for my timer:

private static Timer _timer;

 private static int count = 1;


 public static void Main(string[] args)
 
 //Initialization of _timer 
 _timer = new Timer(x => callTimerMethod(); , null, Timeout.Infinite, Timeout.Infinite);
 Setup_Timer();

 BuildWebHost(args).Run();
 

 /// <summary> 
 /// This method will execute every day at 06:30. 
 /// </summary> 
 public static void callTimerMethod()
 
 System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(string.Format("Method is called"));
 System.Diagnostics.Debug.Write(DateTime.Now.ToString("dddd, dd MMMM yyyy HH:mm:ss"));
 count = count + 1;
 

 /// <summary> 
 /// This method will set the timer execution time and will change the 
 /// tick time of timer.
 /// </summary> 
 private static void Setup_Timer()
 
 DateTime currentTime = DateTime.Now;
 DateTime timerRunningTime = new DateTime(currentTime.Year, currentTime.Month, currentTime.Day, 6, 30, 0);
 timerRunningTime = timerRunningTime.AddDays(1);

 double tickTime = (double)(timerRunningTime - DateTime.Now).TotalSeconds;

 _timer.Change(TimeSpan.FromSeconds(tickTime),
 TimeSpan.FromSeconds(tickTime));
 

And what i want to archive is that I want to change the content of callTimerMethod() to this method:

public async Task AlertSubscribers(ITurnContext turncontext, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default(CancellationToken))
 
 using (var db = new DataBaseContext())
 
 var msg = "";
 var today = DateTime.Today.ToString("dddd");
 var product = db linq code;

 foreach(var prod in product)
 
 msg = $"Reminder! prod.bla";
 

 // Get the conversation state from the turn context.
 var state = await _accessors.CounterState.GetAsync(turncontext, () => new CounterState());

 // Set the property using the accessor.
 await _accessors.CounterState.SetAsync(turncontext, state);

 // Save the new turn count into the conversation state.
 await _accessors.ConversationState.SaveChangesAsync(turncontext);

 // Echo back to the user whatever msg is.
 await turncontext.SendActivityAsync(msg);
 
 

But I can't find a way to archive it... Would really appreciate some help, I have searched around a lot but havent found a similar problem.

The problem is all the namespaces (for an example ITurncontext, Conversationstate, and so on...)

Hope that describes my problem...

Thanks in advance!

EDIT:

It doesn't nessessarly need to be the AlertSubscribers() method, but a function och just code that does the similar thing.

I have tried this code but i cant get it to make the bot send a message to the user(in this case me in the Emulator):

public static void callTimerMethod()
 
 IMessageActivity message = Activity.CreateMessageActivity();

 message.Text = "Hello!";
 message.TextFormat = "plain";
 message.Locale = "en-Us";
 message.ChannelId = "emulator";
 message.Id = "A guid";
 message.InputHint = "acceptingInput";
 message.LocalTimestamp = DateTimeOffset.Now;
 message.ReplyToId = "A guid";
 message.ServiceUrl = "http://localhost:50265";
 message.Timestamp = DateTimeOffset.Now;
 message.Type = "ConversationUpdate";

 message.AsConversationUpdateActivity();
 

I am new to Bot framework so my code and my thaughts may be wrong...

Solved it!

public static async void callTimerMethod()

 await ConversationStarter.Resume("conversationId", "emulator");

I had to change the callTimerMethod() to an async method and create a ConversationStarter class that handles the message for me.

This is ConversationStarter :

public class ConversationStarter

 public static string fromId;
 public static string fromName;
 public static string toId;
 public static string toName;
 public static string serviceUrl;
 public static string channelId;
 public static string conversationId;


 public static async Task Resume(string conversationId, string channelId)
 
 conversationId = await Talk(conversationId, channelId, $"Hi there!");
 conversationId = await Talk(conversationId, channelId, $"This is a notification!");
 

 private static async Task<string> Talk(string conversationId, string channelId, string msg)
 
 var userAccount = new ChannelAccount(toId, toName);
 var botAccount = new ChannelAccount(fromId, fromName);
 var connector = new ConnectorClient(new Uri(serviceUrl));

 IMessageActivity message = Activity.CreateMessageActivity();
 if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(conversationId) && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(channelId))
 
 message.ChannelId = channelId;
 
 else
 
 conversationId = (await connector.Conversations.CreateDirectConversationAsync(botAccount, userAccount)).Id;
 
 message.From = botAccount;
 message.Recipient = userAccount;
 message.Conversation = new ConversationAccount(id: conversationId);
 message.Text = msg;
 message.Locale = "en-Us";
 await connector.Conversations.SendToConversationAsync((Activity)message);
 return conversationId;