Building Solutions with Microsoft Teams: Understanding the Teams App Developer Platform

by Jenkins NS

Overview

Explore Microsoft Teams and use its principal tools such as Node.js, npm, Yeoman, Gulp, TypeScript, and React to help you develop for Teams better. This book covers the core components and use cases for Teams apps and guides you through ideas for automation, provisioning, and implementation.

Building Solutions with Microsoft Teams starts with an overview of the Microsoft Teams developer platform followed by how to set up your environment for building apps and solutions with Teams. You will then go through various features of conversational bots and learn how to create a bot. You will gain an understanding of the messaging extension and command actions along with tabs for personal, groups, and teams contexts. Moving forward, you will work with SharePoint and Teams together via SharePoint Framework. Finally, you will manage the Teams life cycle and see design guidelines supported by various case studies.

After reading thisbook, you will be able to integrate solutions from Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, and Power Virtual agents by using accelerators. You will also be able to leverage your existing skills from SharePoint Framework development.

What You Will Learn

• Extend the Teams developer platform capabilities
• Understand Microsoft Graph, including lifecycle management, collaboration, calling, and online meetings
• Create an app package for your Microsoft Teams app
• Connect web services to Microsoft Teams with webhooks

Who This Book Is For
Microsoft Teams developers.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781484264751
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	12/19/2020
Edition description:	1st ed.
Pages:	393
Product dimensions:	6.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Jenkins is an Office Development MVP who has been working on SharePoint for more than 16 years, focusing on building custom solutions for Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Framework, Power Platform, Office 365, and SharePoint.

He is passionate about SharePoint and actively blogs, organizes events, and speaks at events and international conferences, most recently on the topics of Microsoft Teams, SharePoint Framework (SPFx), Power Apps, Power Automate, and Power Virtual Agents.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Overview: Microsoft Teams Developer Platform.- Chapter 2: Building Apps and Solutions with Microsoft Teams.- Chapter 3: Interactive Conversational Bots.- Chapter 4: Messaging Extension and Action Comments.- Chapter 5: Embedded Web Experiences with Tabs.- Chapter 6: Collect Input From User Using Task Modules.- Chapter 7: Connect Web Services to Microsoft Teams with Webhooks.- Chapter 8: Extend Your Solution with Microsoft Graph.- Chapter 9: Building Teams Apps using Solution Accelerators.- Chapter 10: SharePoint and Teams: Better Together.- Chapter 11: Teams Lifecycle Management and Design Guideline for Apps.