Pro Microsoft Teams Development: A Hands-on Guide to Building Custom Solutions for the Teams Platform

✍ Scribed by Rick Van Rousselt

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 390
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Leverage the Microsoft Teams developer platform to integrate and build your apps in Teams.

Busy developers will want to integrate it with other applications, both existing and new ones. Use this practical, hands-on guide to get you started building amazing custom solutions on and for Microsoft Teams, the new collaboration workspace in Office 365 and the fastest growing app in Microsoft history.

Get ready to learn how to interact with data inside of Teams and how to surface your data on top of Teams, so that it is easily searchable and better supports people in their day-to-day jobs. Teams development expert Rick Van Rousselt starts at the beginning, helping you set up your environment, and takes you step by step through the process. You will begin with low code, simple integrations, and progress in your learning to increasingly more complex, multi-faceted applications that use every aspect of the extension capabilities of Teams.

And a bonus for developers is that integrating your own apps into the Teams developer platform is an excellent opportunity for those apps to get more visibility and usage.

What You Will Learn

• Understand the different development extension points and frameworks that are available in the Teams developer platform
• Create custom tabs, bots, connectors, messaging extensions, and webhooks
• Set up your development environment and speed up the development process
• Enlist best practices and easy wins that will make an application stand out inside the Teams ecosystem
• Explore advanced scenarios where the integrations of Office 365 meet inside of Microsoft Teams

Who This Book Is For

Developers (front end, back end, C#, or Node.js) and architects. Readers should be familiar with C# or Node.js and tools such as Visual Studio or Visual Studio Code and have some experience with Microsoft Teams. Beyond that, no further knowledge is required because the book starts at the beginning, setting up a development environment.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
What’s required (Rick Van Rousselt)....Pages 3-11
Additional tools (Rick Van Rousselt)....Pages 13-21
Make it easy on yourself (Rick Van Rousselt)....Pages 23-46
Front Matter ....Pages 47-47
Teams Client JavaScript SDK (Rick Van Rousselt)....Pages 49-74
Static and configurable tabs (Rick Van Rousselt)....Pages 75-110
Authentication inside tabs (Rick Van Rousselt)....Pages 111-134
Integrating Teams and SharePoint (Rick Van Rousselt)....Pages 135-143
Front Matter ....Pages 145-145
Introducing bots (Rick Van Rousselt)....Pages 147-159
Natural language processing bots (Rick Van Rousselt)....Pages 161-185
Activity feed bots (Rick Van Rousselt)....Pages 187-210
Teams-specific bot integrations (Rick Van Rousselt)....Pages 211-228
Calling and media bots (Rick Van Rousselt)....Pages 229-240
Front Matter ....Pages 241-241
Incoming webhooks (Rick Van Rousselt)....Pages 243-274
Outgoing webhooks (Rick Van Rousselt)....Pages 275-283
Front Matter ....Pages 285-285
Search-based extensions (Rick Van Rousselt)....Pages 287-306
Action-based extensions (Rick Van Rousselt)....Pages 307-341
Front Matter ....Pages 343-343
Microsoft Graph for Teams (Rick Van Rousselt)....Pages 345-353
PowerShell for Teams (Rick Van Rousselt)....Pages 355-360
Back Matter ....Pages 361-391

✦ Subjects

Computer Science; Microsoft and .NET