Building apps for Teams in .NET & Blazor

[@Stafford674]

Friendly feed back: At 2:47 you ask him 'what are customers out there building?'. Good question but you let him get away with generalities. I suggest you press him to give a concrete example of a teams app. A question like "What was the last Teams App that you used?' . And I suggest that you prep him in advance to answer the question. He fears that by giving an example he will detract from the breadth of what can be done. You can help him get over this. Liked the video and keeep them coming.

[@johnm.9964]

Thanks for the feedback. I'll think on this for future questions like this!

[@marklnz]

Does this support Blazor Server only? Or can you do Blazor WASM also? Also, given that Blazor Server is heavily dependent upon SignalR, there must be some additional cost to hosting a Blazor Server app in your Teams environment, right?

[@stephajn]

That was the biggest question going through my mind as well. Additionally, would these apps also get surfaced inside of the Desktop Teams client? Or would they only work in Teams in the browser?

[@ronaldwalcott5090]

Is it actually hosted in Teams? I get the impression that the app is deployed in Azure and called in some way from a tab in Teams. Did you get an answer?

[@markcuello5]

What is `Blazor WASM`?

[@johnm.9964]

The project template we ship right now is a Blazor Server app but it's not a requirement. A few folks have modified our template to work with WASM. For the additional cost question, there's nothing unique here in how you'd host and scale your Blazor app. The hosting is still up to you, nothing is hosted by Teams.

[@FilipCordas]

@@johnm.9964 Does teams runtime support WASM? Is that version specific?

[@SKotekar]

Once I make an app for teams, can other organizations add it to their teams? how would that work?

[@johnm.9964]

Yes! Start here: devblogs.microsoft.com/microsoft365dev/publish-your-apps-to-the-microsoft-teams-store

[@JohanNordberg]

Any plans to do a similar setup for Office JS Taskpane apps?

[@johnm.9964]

We'll be in the planning stages soon around how Office extensions fit into the toolkit we're building and how we might unify the developer experience.

[@ronaldschutte7948]

Is that local debugging working without using ngrok?

[@johnm.9964]

You don't need to use a tool like ngrok to debug a Tab, but for the Bot you do. I already had ngrok running when I demoed this. Apologies I forgot to mention it!

[@markcuello5]

Help me