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By Jagmeet Singh | Updated: 25 May 2021 20:30 IST

Microsoft Teams Gets Ability to Let Developers Build Collaborative Apps, Custom Scenes

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Microsoft Teams is getting a shared stage integration
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Microsoft Teams — the team communication solution by the Redmond company that is aimed to take on the likes of Slack, Google Meet, and Zoom — is receiving a list of updates to enhance experience. The software giant announced the updates while virtually kicking off Microsoft Build 2021 on Tuesday. The new changes will allow developers to bring real-time, multi- collaboration for their apps offering whiteboarding, design, and project boards to s. Microsoft also brought updates to Outlook and Windows and a series of new announcements specifically for the developer community working mostly from their homes amid the coronavirus pandemic.

As the 145 million s on a daily basis. Considering this growth and the potential to expand it further, the Seattle, Washington-based company brought a shared stage integration. This will allow developers to build collaborative apps on top of Teams.

These apps will be able to offer real-time, multi- collaboration experiences through a configuration in the app manifest. Microsoft also announced an extension of the Together mode available in Teams to let developers bring custom scenes to your virtual meeting.

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Microsoft Teams will now lets developers build custom scenes for Together mode
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Developers have also been provided with new media APIs with resource-specific consent that will allow them to get real-time access to audio and video streams available in your Teams meetings to offer features such as transcription, note taking, and insights gathering through their apps.

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Additionally, Microsoft announced the availability of fluid components in private preview that will allow experiences such as sending a message with a table, action items or a list that can be co-authored and edited by everyone in line, minimising the need for long chat threads and meetings.

Microsoft has also enabled developers with access to meeting event APIs for Teams that will allow automation of meeting-related workflows through events such as meeting start or end. Additionally, developers have received a dedicated Developer Portal for Microsoft Teams to offer a standalone app management console that is accessible via the Web or within Teams. It will help developers and configure their apps within a single or central location. The new place is available as an the existing App Studio.

The arrival of the Developer Portal for Microsoft Teams is likely to encourage developers to build new experiences for Teams, which could make the competition tougher for Zoom.

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In addition to the updates, Microsoft announced for message extensions in Outlook on the Web. This will allow s to find message extensions that will allow them to integrate tasks available in Teams within their messages while emailing someone on Outlook. It will be available through a new menu of search-based message extensions that will be accessible through the email client.

Microsoft Outlook is getting for message extensions
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At this year's Microsoft Build, the company emphasised on its growing interest to ease experiences for developers and building experiences for remote workflows. It announced a new update for Visual Studio 2019 that is generally available with productivity enhancements for .Net and C++ developments, enhanced built-in Git tooling, and for creating GitHub Actions workflows directly from the IDE. The Windows maker also released its roap for Visual Studio 2022 to bring an advanced development environment.

Microsoft additionally announced the Microsoft Search Federation as its unified search offering across Microsoft Azure Cognitive Search and Dynamics 365. Outlook is also getting an Organization Explorer this summer to let teams discover their relationships and explore their colleagues and teams visually.

Furthermore, Microsoft announced its partnership with Snapdragon 7c will be available this summer through the Microsoft Store. It is touted to be less costly than consumer notebooks — to attract a large number of developers.

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