Microsoft’s annual developer conference, Microsoft Build, is taking place this week, triggering announcements across the vendor’s entire ecosystem.
This includes Teams, with Microsoft revealing a host of new tools designed to help developers enrich the collaboration experience.
We’ve put together a high-level overview of the news here.
Disclaimer: Some of it is a bit techy for us!
More Customisation of Teams Meetings
Microsoft has slowly been opening up the Teams platform for customisation since its launch, with a flagship announcement last year being the launch of third-party app support.
The vendor has now developed this further with a flurry of new functionality.
Share stage integration, which is currently in preview, gives developers access to the “main stage” of a Teams meeting. In essence, this means that developers will have the ability to plug their application into a meeting itself, not just the Teams platform as a whole.
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Microsoft said this “provides a new surface to enable real-time, multi-user collaboration experiences for your meetings apps, such as whiteboarding, design, project boards and more”.
New meeting event APIs, which are also in preview, can automate meeting workflows through events such as meeting start and end. Microsoft said more event APIs are coming this year.
In other API news, Microsoft will soon give developers real-time access to audio and video streams. This will give them the ability to create apps around transcription, translation and note-taking.
Microsoft has also revealed improved functionality for Together Mode, which UC Today has covered here.
New Developer Resources
Microsoft announced that new features for Microsoft Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code are now in preview.
It said these features will make it easier for developers to build Teams apps that interoperate with the entire Microsoft stack across desktop and mobile.
Microsoft has also launched Developer Portal for Microsoft Teams, which it says will act as a dedicated app management console. The portal will be available via the web or within Teams.
