• Part 1: Setting up your development environment
• Part 2: ngrok: why and how to use it
• Part 3: Creating your first Microsoft Teams app (This one)
• Part 4: Creating Configurable Tabs in Microsoft Teams

After setting up your development environment and getting ramped up with ngrok we will start developing our first Teams app. The quickest way to start is with App studio. App Studio is a Microsoft app from the Teams store especially created for helping you with Teams development.

Part 2: ngrok why and how to use it

This blogpost is part of a series about Microsoft Teams development. The other ones are:

In this ramp-up we will start from scratch with Microsoft Teams Development. Every week I will publish a post and in this blog series we will go through the different parts that are needed for Teams Development and the different possibilities with developing on the Teams platform. I will also make a video series of this with my fellow MVP Thomas Gölles

When developing a Microsoft Teams solution in C# with Visual Studio, I often find myself changing the manifest file. Mainly because I use ngrok to tunnel from Teams to my local development machine. So every time I fire up a new instance of ngrok I need to change the manifest file to a new endpoint url. A quick trick to make this process faster is adding the needed files to my solution. This way I keep it all in one place.

When working with several customers it has come to my attention that there are still a lot of people who do not know that there is a dedicated website and YouTube channel for information on Microsoft Teams. So just to make sure that everybody knows go to https://www.successwithteams.com (redirects to https://docs.microsoft.com/nl-nl/MicrosoftTeams/Microsoft-Teams) and https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs2IXBqperxWVe2ozrr3Gdg/videos Hope it helps…

When testing out Microsoft Teams and reading up on the documentation I noticed that the webhooks that work in Teams are the same as in an Office 365 group. This is great news because we already know how to connect to a Office 365 group using a webhook and it’s already documented by Microsoft and many others. So lets get started on getting our alerts into our team.