Microsoft Teams developer documentation

Get documentation, sample code, tutorials, and more to help you build custom Microsoft Teams apps.

What's new

Microsoft Build 2022

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Overview

Plan your app

Overview

Design your app

How-To Guide

Build your app

How-To Guide

Enhance your app with Microsoft Graph

Deploy

Publish your app to the Teams store

sample

Code samples

Guides and resources

Learn

• Build apps for Microsoft Teams
• Create embedded web experiences with tabs
• Create conversational interactions with bots
• Create task-oriented interactions with message extensions
• Collect input and gather information with task modules
• Connect web services to channels and teams with webhooks and Office 365 Connectors
• Extend Teams apps across Microsoft 365

Capabilities

• Tabs
• Bots
• Message extensions
• Apps for Teams meetings
• Cards and task modules
• Webhooks and connectors

Explore

• Enhanced collaboration with Live Share SDK
• Monetize your Teams app with a transactable SaaS offer
• User authentication and SSO
• Build low-code Teams apps, bots, and flows with Microsoft Power Platform
• Developer Portal for Teams
• Manifest schema for Teams apps
• Build scenarios for Teams apps
• Best practices for Teams app scenarios

Integrate

• Integrate a Power Virtual Agents chatbot
• Integrate Share-to-Teams button for your website
• Integrate a Teams tab with SharePoint
• Integrate with the Moodle learning management system
• Integrate production-ready app templates
• Integrate production-ready Shifts connectors

Community

• Microsoft Teams developer blog
• Microsoft Teams community calls
• Announcements
• Microsoft Teams Developer Community and response
• Contribute to Microsoft Teams documentation

Audience

• Developers
• IT professionals
• End users

Tools and SDKs

Microsoft Teams Toolkit extension for Visual Studio Code

Microsoft Teams Toolkit extension for Visual Studio

Developer Portal

Microsoft Graph SDKs

JavaScript client SDK for tabs and other hosted experiences

Node.js Bot Framework SDK for bots and message extensions

.NET Bot Framework SDK for bots and message extensions

Yeoman generator for Microsoft Teams