Problem

There is no way to send arbitrary events or invoke using the emulator. We need to support these to enable transcript-based testing as well as to allow triggering custom events. One issue is that some events might need to be before or instead of the event sent on restart conversation. For example, SetTestOptions event sets a random seed and that needs to have the conversation id sent by updateConversation but also need to be before it so the bot response to updateConversation is not random.

Solution

Please add to the Conversation send activity menu a way to send an event or invoke with an arbitrary JSON payload.

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