Episode 194: Building apps for Teams with Waldek Mastykarz

Recording date: 06/30/2022

John Papa @John_Papa

Ward Bell @WardBell

Dan Wahlin @DanWahlin

Craig Shoemaker @craigshoemaker

Waldek Mastykarz @Waldekm

Brought to you by

• AG Grid

  

• IdeaBlade

Resources:

• Waldek Mastykarz blog
• Microsoft Teams
• Teams Toolkit
• VS Code extension
• GitHub app for Teams
• Include a SaaS offer with your Teams app
• Build apps for Microsoft Teams (Docs)
• Design your tab for Microsoft Teams
• Teams Message Extensions
• Designing your Microsoft Teams meeting extension
• Create a bot
• Ngrok
• Bots in Microsoft Teams
• Microsoft Graph
• The Back of a Napkin
• Teams-angular

Timejumps

• 01:13 Guest introduction
• 02:51 Why did you start building apps for Teams?
• 04:40 What benefit is there to use Teams?
• 06:44 Can apps leverage the Teams infrastructure?
• 08:26 Sponsor: Ag Grid
• 09:28 Do you have examples of apps developed for Teams?
• 15:28 What is the developer experience of building an app for Teams?
• 20:17 What events or app life cycle are devs going to want to use?
• 25:17 Sponsor: IdeaBlade
• 26:13 How easy is it to bring an existing app into Teams?
• 29:32 Are apps isolated from Teams?
• 31:03 What are some use cases for bots inside Teams?
• 32:54 What is debugging a Teams app like?
• 39:20 What is the query language for Microsoft graph?
• 40:35 Final thoughts

Podcast editing on this episode done by Chris Enns of Lemon Productions.