Microsoft Teams developer documentation

Welcome to overview of Microsoft Teams developer documentation. Teams apps bring key information, common tools, and trusted processes to where people increasingly gather, learn, and work.

Explore the latest

Reference

• Community chat room for Microsoft Teams app developers

What's new

• Drive customer adoption of your app
• Changelog for Developer Portal
• SSO authentication for your Adaptive Cards Universal Actions
• Third party authentication for Adaptive Cards Universal Actions
• Plan your app growth in Teams
• Build a dashboard tab app
• Targeted in-meeting notification (Developer preview)
• Enable app caching for your tab app (Developer preview)
• Update and soft delete event notifications in bot
• Teams developer documentation FAQs

What's new

• Apps for Teams meetings support anonymous users
• Notification bot in Teams
• Command bot in Teams
• Enable SSO for your bot and message extension app
• Integrate location capabilities
• Zero install for link unfurling
• Adaptive Cards overflow menu
• Support global routing for bot APIs
• Developer Portal for Teams is now available for GCC tenants
• Live Share canvas

Get started

Get Started

• Get started with building apps
• Get started with GitHub
• Glossary
• Overview

Tutorial

• Build app with JavaScript
• Build your first app using Blazor
• Build app with SPFx
• Build app with C# or .NET
• Build app with Node.js
• Build command bot with JavaScript
• Build notification bot with JavaScript
• Build workflow bot

Monetize your app

Concept

• Guidelines for apps linked to SaaS offers
• Microsoft Teams store validation guidelines
• Monetize your Teams app with a transactable SaaS offer
• In-app purchases
• Test preview for monetized apps
• Additional tips for rapid approval to publish your app linked to a SaaS offer

Build apps for Teams

Overview

• Build apps for Microsoft Teams
• App fundamentals
• Design your app
• Code samples
• Build apps for Teams meeting stage

What's new

• What's new

Build app capabilities

Concept

• Build tabs
• Build bots
• Build message extensions
• Build apps for Teams meetings
• Build webhooks and connectors
• Build cards and task modules
• App manifest
• Public developer preview manifest schema

Step-by-step guides

Tutorial

• Grant tab device permissions
• Create Teams conversation bot
• Create Calling and meeting bot
• Configure SSO for tabs and message extensions
• Build tabs with Adaptive Card
• Build a bot to send Proactive messages
• Build a bot with SSO authentication
• Generate meeting token
• Generate meeting sidepanel
• Send activity feed notification

Tutorial

• Build an in-meeting document signing app
• Build command bot with JavaScript
• Build notification bot with JavaScript
• Upload files to Teams from a bot
• Generate meeting content bubble
• Invoke task modules from Microsoft Teams
• Build search based message extension
• Build action based message extension
• Build Outgoing Webhooks
• Unfurl links in Teams using bot

Tutorial

• Build Teams connectors

Teams app scenarios

Reference

• Build scenarios for Teams app
• Best practices for Teams app scenarios
• Explore low-code apps for Teams

Publish and distribute

Concept

• Publish Teams apps in Microsoft Teams store
• Distribution
• Upload your app in Microsoft Teams
• Publish to Teams Store
• Store validation guidelines
• Common reasons for app validation failure
• Maintain your published app

Notifications

Reference

• Design activity feed notifications
• Send activity feed notifications
• Best practices for activity feed notifications
• Send proactive messages