Add How-to guides to Microsoft Teams app

Microsoft Teams Toolkit project templates focus on getting started with an app that implements a single app capability. However, apps can have multiple capabilities. We've created a set of How-to guides with the steps needed to add different capabilities to a project created with Teams Toolkit.

How-to guides for adding capabilities

Capability	How-to Guide
Configure Tab Capability	How to configure Tab capability within your Teams app
Configure Bot Capability	How to configure Bot capability within your Teams app
Configure Message Extension Capability	How to configure Message Extension capability within your Teams app
Configure Outlook add-in Capability	How to configure Outlook add-in capability within your Teams app

Open the guides from Teams Toolkit

• Use Teams Toolkit pane
• Use the Command Palette

Use Teams Toolkit pane

1. Open your app project in Microsoft Visual Studio Code.

2. Select Teams Toolkit from the Visual Studio Code activity bar.

3. Select View How-to Guides in the DEVELOPMENT section.

   

4. From the dropdown list that appears, select the capability you want to add to your app. You'll be redirected to the respective How-to Guide.

   

Use the Command Palette

1. Open your app project in Visual Studio Code.

2. Select View > Command Palette... or Ctrl+Shift+P.

   

3. Select Teams: View How-to Guides.

   

4. From the dropdown list that appears, select the capability you want to add to your app. You'll be redirected to the respective How-to Guide.

   

See also

• Walkthrough building an app that responds to chat commands.
• Walkthrough building an app that sends chat messages.
• Walkthrough building an app with a workflow in chat
• App manifest schema