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This sample application demonstrates how to conduct live coding interviews in Microsoft Teams using the Live Share SDK. Featuring a side panel for coding questions and real-time collaboration, this app allows participants to engage in interactive coding sessions, making it an ideal tool for remote technical interviews.

Included Features

  • Meeting Stage
  • Meeting SidePanel
  • Live Share SDK
  • RSC Permissions

Interaction with app

side panel

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 manifest (.zip file link below) to your teams and/or as a personal app. (Uploading must be enabled for your tenant, see steps here).

Live coding interview using Shared meeting stage: Manifest

Prerequisites

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.

  1. Install Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.14 or higher Visual Studio
  2. Install Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit for Visual Studio Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit extension
  3. 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.
  4. In the debug dropdown menu of Visual Studio, select default startup project > Microsoft Teams (browser)
  5. Right-click the 'M365Agent' project in Solution Explorer and select Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit > Select Microsoft 365 Account
  6. Sign in to Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit with a Microsoft 365 work or school account
  7. Set Startup Item as Microsoft Teams (browser).
  8. Press F5, or select Debug > Start Debugging menu in Visual Studio to start your app
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  9. 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.

Workflow


sequenceDiagram

    Teams User->>+Teams Client: Schedules a Teams Meeting with candidate

    Teams Client->>+Live Coding App: Installs the App

    Teams User->>+Teams Client: Starts the meeting

    Teams User->>+Live Coding App: Opens the Live coding app side panel

    Live Coding App->>+Side Panel: Load questions

    Side Panel-->>-Live Coding App: Loads predefined coding questions

    Teams User->>+Side Panel: Select the coding question to share to stage

    Side Panel-->>-Teams Client: Tells the team client to open a code editor on the stage

    Teams Client->>+Code Editor Stage: Tells the app which coding question to open

    Code Editor Stage-->>-Live Coding App: Shares the question to share to stage in the meeting

Setup

  1. Register a new application in the Microsoft Entra ID – App Registrations portal.

    NOTE: When you create your app registration, you will create an App ID and App password - make sure you keep these for later.

  2. 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
  1. Setup for code

  • Clone the repository

    git clone https://github.com/OfficeDev/Microsoft-Teams-Samples.git

    In a terminal, navigate to samples/meeting-live-coding-interview/csharp

    # change into project folder
cd # MeetingLiveCoding

Run the app from a terminal or from Visual Studio, choose option A or B.

A) From a terminal

```bash
# run the app
dotnet run

    B) Or from Visual Studio

    • Launch Visual Studio
    • File -> Open -> Project/Solution
    • Navigate to MeetingLiveCoding folder
    • Select MeetingLiveCoding.csproj file
    • Press F5 to run the project

  • Inside ClientApp folder execute the below command.

    # npx @fluidframework/azure-local-service@latest
  1. Setup Manifest for Teams

  • This step is specific to Teams.

    • Edit the manifest.json contained in the ./appPackage folder to replace your Microsoft App Id (that was created when you registered your app registration earlier) everywhere you see the place holder string {{Microsoft-App-Id}} (depending on the scenario the Microsoft App Id may occur multiple times in the manifest.json)
    • Edit the manifest.json for validDomains and replace {{domain-name}} with base Url of your domain. E.g. if you are using ngrok it would be https://1234.ngrok-free.app then your domain-name will be 1234.ngrok-free.app and if you are using dev tunnels then your domain will be like: 12345.devtunnels.ms.
    • Zip up the contents of the appPackage folder to create a manifest.zip (Make sure that zip file does not contains any subfolder otherwise you will get error while uploading your .zip package)

  • 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.

Note Run the app on desktop client with developer preview on.

Running the sample

Side panel view: side panel

Question view on click of share: shared content

Question view for other participant in meeting: shared content second user

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