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sample	This Microsoft Teams sample app showcases how to create conversational tabs for users to discuss sub-entities within a tab, enhancing collaboration and interaction.	office-teams office office-365	csharp	contentType createdDate samples 06/10/2021 01:48:56 AM	officedev-microsoft-teams-samples-tab-conversations-csharp

Conversational Tabs

Discover this Microsoft Teams sample app that demonstrates the implementation of conversational tabs, enabling users to engage in discussions about specific sub-entities within the tab. With comprehensive setup instructions and a demo manifest for easy installation, this app empowers developers to enhance user interaction and collaboration in their Teams applications. Create conversational tabs

Included Features

• Conversational Tabs

Interaction with app

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. (Sideloading must be enabled for your tenant, see steps here).

Conversational Tabs: Manifest

Prerequisites

• .NET Core SDK version 6.0

  # determine dotnet version
  dotnet --version

• Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio

Run the app (Using Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio)

The simplest way to run this sample in Teams is to use Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio.

1. Install Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.10 Preview 4 or higher Visual Studio
2. Install Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Teams Toolkit extension
3. In the debug dropdown menu of Visual Studio, select default startup project > Microsoft Teams (browser)
4. In Visual Studio, right-click your TeamsApp project and Select Teams Toolkit > Prepare Teams App Dependencies
5. Using the extension, sign in with your Microsoft 365 account where you have permissions to upload custom apps.
6. Select Debug > Start Debugging or F5 to run the menu in Visual Studio.
7. In the browser that launches, select the Add button to install the app to Teams.

If you do not have permission to upload custom apps (sideloading), Teams 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.

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

3. Setup for code

• Clone the repository

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

• Run the bot from a terminal or from Visual Studio:

  A) From a terminal, navigate to samples/tab-conversations/csharp

  # run the bot
  dotnet run

  B) Or from Visual Studio

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

4. 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 ${{TAB_DOMAIN}} 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.

Running the sample

• Tab showing actions that can be performed

• Open Conversation - opens a new conversation

• Close Conversation - closes the conversation view

NOTE: We should save the subEntityId and conversationId to continue an existing conversartion.

• Deeplink to Conversation - opens the conversation in channel

Related Samples

• Proactive Tab Conversations, using a bot to create conversational tabs programmatically.

Further reading

-Create conversational tabs