csharp

page_type	sample
description	Demonstrating feature where user can checkin with current location and view all previous checkins.
products	office-teams office office-365
languages	csharp
extensions	contentType createdDate samples 11/11/2021 11:30:17 AM
urlFragment	officedev-microsoft-teams-samples-app-checkin-location-csharp

App check-in location

This sample shows feature where user can checkin with current location and view all previous checkins.

Currently, Microsoft Teams support for get geolocation capability is only available for mobile clients

Interaction with app

Prerequisites

• .NET Core SDK version 6.0

  determine dotnet version

  dotnet --version

• Ngrok (For local environment testing) Latest (any other tunneling software can also be used)

• Teams Microsoft Teams is installed and you have an account

Setup

1. Setup for Bot

• Register a AAD aap registration in Azure portal.

• Also, register a bot with Azure Bot Service, following the instructions here.

• Ensure that you've enabled the Teams Channel

• While registering the bot, use https://<your_ngrok_url>/api/messages as the messaging endpoint.

  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 -host-header=rewrite 3978

3. Setup for code

• Clone the repository

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

• Modify the /appsettings.json and fill in the following details:

  • {{Microsoft-App-Id}} - Generated from Step 1 while doing AAd app registration in Azure portal.
  • {{ Microsoft-App-Password}} - Generated from Step 1, also referred to as Client secret
  • {{ Application Base Url }} - Your application's base url. E.g. https://12345.ngrok.io if you are using ngrok.

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

  A) From a terminal, navigate to samples/app-checkin-location/csharp

  # run the bot
  dotnet run

  B) Or from Visual Studio

  • Launch Visual Studio
  • File -> Open -> Project/Solution
  • Navigate to AppCheckinLocation folder
  • Select AppCheckinLocation.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 {{domain-name}} with base Url of your domain. E.g. if you are using ngrok it would be https://1234.ngrok.io then your domain-name will be 1234.ngrok.io.
  • 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

Card with actions check in:

Geo Location of user:

User details:

Viewcheckin Details of user:

Geo Location of user:

View Location UI:

Deploy the bot to Azure

To learn more about deploying a bot to Azure, see Deploy your bot to Azure for a complete list of deployment instructions.

Further reading

• Bot Framework Documentation
• Bot Basics
• Activity processing
• Azure Bot Service Introduction
• Azure Bot Service Documentation
• .NET Core CLI tools
• Azure CLI
• Azure Portal
• Language Understanding using LUIS
• Channels and Bot Connector Service