Developing for Microsoft Teams

While you may already be an experienced user of Microsoft Teams, this course teaches you how to develop for the rapidly growing platform.

Introduction

• Build your productivity tools for Microsoft Teams
• What are Microsoft Teams extensions?
• Getting the most from the course

1. Getting Started

• Options for Teams development
• Channel apps and personal apps
• Adding a simple tab
• Looking at App Studio
• Packaging and deployment

2. The Development Toolchain

• Tooling up
• Set up your development account
• Development toolchain
• Node.js and friends
• Visual Studio Code

3. Tabs

• What are Microsoft Teams tabs?
• Channel/Group tabs
• Personal tabs
• Challenge: Creating a channel tab
• Solution: Creating a channel tab

4. Conversational Bots

• Types of bots
• Bot registration and Bot Framework
• Source code
• Bot Framework Composer and Emulator
• Challenge: Building a picture library bot
• Solution: Building a picture library bot

5. Messaging Extensions

• Introduction to messaging extensions
• Building a messaging extension
• Adaptive Cards
• Challenge: Building a messaging extension to find images
• Solution: Building a messaging extension to find images

6. Webhooks, Connectors, and Task Modules

• Incoming webhooks
• Outgoing webhooks
• Connectors
• Task modules
• Challenge: Gathering information
• Solution: Gathering information

7. Getting External Data

• Getting data from Microsoft 365 or custom data sources
• Authorization and SSO
• Building tabs using the SharePoint Framework

8. Packaging and Deployment

• Packaging and hosting
• Deployment
• Publishing
• Tips and tricks

Conclusion

• Next steps with developing for Microsoft Teams