Types of Cards

05/29/2025

This Microsoft Teams bot sample demonstrates sending various card types, such as Adaptive, Hero, List, and Thumbnail cards. It includes detailed steps for setup, app deployment, and using Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit for Visual Studio to run the app. Experience this versatile bot directly within your Teams client, complete with a manifest for easy uploading.

Included Features

Bots
Adaptive Cards
Hero Cards
List Cards
O365 Connector Cards
List Cards
Thumbnail Cards
Collections Cards

Interaction with app

all-cards-sample

Try it yourself - experience the App in your Microsoft Teams client

Please find below demo manifest which is deployed on Microsoft Azure and you can try it yourself by uploading the app package (.zip file link below) to your teams and/or as a personal app. (Uploading must be enabled for your tenant, see steps here).

Different types of cards: Manifest

Prerequisites

Microsoft Teams is installed and you have an account (not a guest account).

.NET Core SDK version 6.0

# determine dotnet version
dotnet --version

Publicly addressable https url or tunnel such as dev tunnel or ngrok latest version or Tunnel Relay
Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit for Visual Studio

Run the app (Using Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit for Visual Studio)

The simplest way to run this sample in Teams is to use Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit for Visual Studio.

Install Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.14 or higher Visual Studio
Install Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit for Visual Studio Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit extension
In the debug dropdown menu of Visual Studio, select Dev Tunnels > Create A Tunnel (set authentication type to Public) or select an existing public dev tunnel.
Right-click the 'M365Agent' project in Solution Explorer and select Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit > Select Microsoft 365 Account
Sign in to Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit with a Microsoft 365 work or school account
Set Startup Item as Microsoft Teams (browser).
Press F5, or select Debug > Start Debugging menu in Visual Studio to start your app
In the opened web browser, select Add button to install the app in Teams

If you do not have permission to upload custom apps (uploading), Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit will recommend creating and using a Microsoft 365 Developer Program account - a free program to get your own dev environment sandbox that includes Teams.

Setup

Register a new application in the Microsoft Entra ID – App Registrations portal.
1. Select New Registration and on the register an application page, set following values:
  - Set name to your app name.
  - Choose the supported account types (any account type will work)
  - Leave Redirect URI empty.
  - Choose Register.
2. On the overview page, copy and save the Application (client) ID, Directory (tenant) ID. You’ll need those later when updating your Teams application manifest and in the appsettings.json.
3. Navigate to Authentication If an app hasn't been granted IT admin consent, users will have to provide consent the first time they use an app.
  - Set another redirect URI:
  - Select Add a platform.
  - Select web.
  - Enter the redirect URI for the app in the following format:
    1. https://token.botframework.com/.auth/web/redirect
1. Navigate to the Certificates & secrets. In the Client secrets section, click on "+ New client secret". Add a description (Name of the secret) for the secret and select “Never” for Expires. Click "Add". Once the client secret is created, copy its value, it need to be placed in the appsettings.json.

Setup for Bot

In Azure portal, create a Azure Bot resource.
Ensure that you've enabled the Teams Channel
While registering the bot, use https://<your_tunnel_domain>/api/messages as the messaging endpoint.

Setup NGROK

Run ngrok - point to port 3978
```
ngrok http 3978 --host-header="localhost:3978"
```
Alternatively, you can also use the dev tunnels. Please follow Create and host a dev tunnel and host the tunnel with anonymous user access command as shown below:
```
devtunnel host -p 3978 --allow-anonymous
```

Setup for code

Clone the repository
```
git clone https://github.com/OfficeDev/Microsoft-Teams-Samples.git
```
Run the bot from a terminal or from Visual Studio:

A) From a terminal, navigate to samples/bot-all-cards/csharp/BotAllCards
```
# run the bot
dotnet run
```
B) Or from Visual Studio
- Launch Visual Studio
- File -> Open -> Project/Solution
- Navigate to samples/bot-all-cards/csharp/BotAllCards folder
- Select BotAllCards.csproj file
- Press F5 to run the project
This step is specific to Teams.

Modify the manifest.json in the /appPackage folder and replace the following details:

{{Microsoft-App-Id}} with Application id generated from Step 1
{{domain-name}} with base Url domain. E.g. if you are using ngrok it would be 1234.ngrok-free.app and if you are using dev tunnels then your domain will be 12345.devtunnels.ms.

Zip the contents of appPackage folder into a manifest.zip.
Modify the /appsettings.json and fill in the following details:

{{Microsoft-App-Id}} - Generated from Step 1 is the application app id
{{ Microsoft-App-Password}} - Generated from Step 1, also referred to as Client secret
{{ Microsoft-App-TenantId }} - Generated from Step 1 is the tenantId id
{{ ConnectionName }} - ConnectionName (OAuth Connection Name)

Bot OAuth Connection:

Installapp

Note:

If you are facing any issue in your app, please uncomment this line and put your debugger for local debug.

Upload the manifest.zip to Teams (in the Apps view click "Upload a custom app")
- Go to Microsoft Teams. From the lower left corner, select Apps
- From the lower left corner, choose Upload a custom App
- Go to your project directory, the ./appPackage folder, select the zip folder, and choose Open.
- Select Add in the pop-up dialog box. Your app is uploaded to Teams.

Running the sample

Install App:

Installapp

Welcome Cards:

WelcomeCards

All Cards:

AllCards

Adaptive Card:

AdaptiveCard

Add media url from sharepoint or onedrive to the text input to get media loaded to the adaptive card. For more information refer media elements in card.

AdaptiveCardMedia