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Pro Microsoft Teams Development

A Hands-on Guide to Building Custom Solutions for the Teams Platform

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  • Explores all the extension points available for developers to use inside of Microsoft Teams
  • Explains the different integration applications and other external services
  • Extends Teams to fit the requirements of your project and reduce context switching for users

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
  2. Before You Can Start Building

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. What’s required

      • Rick Van Rousselt
      Pages 3-11
    3. Additional tools

      • Rick Van Rousselt
      Pages 13-21
    4. Make it easy on yourself

      • Rick Van Rousselt
      Pages 23-46
  3. Tabs

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 47-47
    2. Teams Client JavaScript SDK

      • Rick Van Rousselt
      Pages 49-74
    3. Static and configurable tabs

      • Rick Van Rousselt
      Pages 75-110
    4. Authentication inside tabs

      • Rick Van Rousselt
      Pages 111-134
    5. Integrating Teams and SharePoint

      • Rick Van Rousselt
      Pages 135-143
  4. Bots

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145
    2. Introducing bots

      • Rick Van Rousselt
      Pages 147-159
    3. Natural language processing bots

      • Rick Van Rousselt
      Pages 161-185
    4. Activity feed bots

      • Rick Van Rousselt
      Pages 187-210
    5. Teams-specific bot integrations

      • Rick Van Rousselt
      Pages 211-228
    6. Calling and media bots

      • Rick Van Rousselt
      Pages 229-240
  5. Webhooks

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 241-241
    2. Incoming webhooks

      • Rick Van Rousselt
      Pages 243-274
    3. Outgoing webhooks

      • Rick Van Rousselt
      Pages 275-283
  6. Messaging Extensions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 285-285

About this book

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. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Pelt, Belgium

    Rick Van Rousselt

About the author

Rick Van Rousselt is a managing partner at Advantive, a Microsoft Gold Partner. He is an Office Apps and Services Microsoft MVP who has been working with SharePoint since 2007, eventually transitioning to Office 365. With a strong focus on development, his current position has given him a diverse skill set and expertise in Office 365, Azure, and all related technologies. His inquisitive disposition motivates him to continuously gain knowledge and share what he learns with those interested in learning the same technologies. He is often pounding pavement in the global tech community, speaking at events such as Microsoft Ignite, ESPC, Collaboration, SharePoint Saturdays, and more, most recently on the topic of Teams development.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Pro Microsoft Teams Development

  • Book Subtitle: A Hands-on Guide to Building Custom Solutions for the Teams Platform

  • Authors: Rick Van Rousselt

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6364-8

  • Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA

  • eBook Packages: Professional and Applied Computing, Apress Access Books, Professional and Applied Computing (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Rick Van Rousselt 2021

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-6363-1Published: 10 November 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-6364-8Published: 09 November 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 391

  • Number of Illustrations: 164 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Microsoft and .NET

Buy it now

Buying options

eBook USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 69.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

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