More than an introduction into building Alexa skills. This session covers:

- how to access the user's personal data like the zip code and email (with permission)
- best practices to store user data between sessions
- nameless invocation
- debugging Alexa skills
- deploying Alexa skills on Azure

The Whetstone.Alexa Nuget package contains classes for serializing and deserializing Alexa messages.

https://www.nuget.org/packages/Whetstone.Alexa/

Source code for this package is available at:

https://github.com/WhetstoneTechnologies/Whetstone.Alexa

Examples of using this package in an Alexa skill can be found here:

https://github.com/WhetstoneTechnologies/Whetstone.Alexa.AdventureSample

As step-by-step guide for deploying and debugging an Alexa Skill on Azure is available here:

https://github.com/WhetstoneTechnologies/Whetstone.Alexa.AdventureSample/blob/master/docs/spacefactstutorial/SpaceFactsTutorial01.md