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sample	Sample app which demonstrates how a bot can receive all channel messages with RSC without @mention.	office-teams office office-365	csharp	contentType createdDate samples 06/10/2021 01:48:56 AM	officedev-microsoft-teams-samples-bot-receive-channel-messages-withRSC-csharp

Receive Channel messages with RSC permissions

Using this C# sample, a bot can receive all channel messages with RSC without @mention.

This feature shown in this sample is currently available in Public Developer Preview only.

Included Features

• Bots
• Adaptive Cards
• RSC Permissions

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 package (.zip file link below) to your teams and/or as a personal app. (Sideloading must be enabled for your tenant, see steps here).

Receive Channel messages with RSC permissions: Manifest

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. Register a new application in the Azure Active Directory – App Registrations portal.

2. 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.

3. Setup Ngrok

• Run ngrok - point to port 3978

 ngrok http 3978 --host-header="localhost:3978"

4. 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:

  • {{BOT-ID}} - Generated from Step 1 while doing AAd app registration in Azure portal.
  • {{BOT-PASSWORD}} -Generated from Step 1, also referred to as Client secret

• Run in Visual Studio

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

5. This step is specific to Teams.

   • Edit the manifest.json contained in the AppManifest folder to replace your Microsoft App Id (that was created when you registered your bot earlier) everywhere you see the place holder string <<YOUR-MICROSOFT-APP-ID>> (depending on the scenario the Microsoft App Id may occur multiple times in the manifest.json) also update the <<DOMAIN-NAME>> with the ngrok URL`

   • Edit the manifest.json for <<MANIFEST-ID>> replace it with any GUID using guid generator.

   • Edit the manifest.json for webApplicationInfo resource "api://botid-{{MicrosoftAppId}}" with MicrosoftAppId. E.g. "api://botid-{{MicrosoftAppId}}".

   • Zip up the contents of the AppManifest folder to create a manifest.zip

   • Sideload in a team to test

     • Select or create a team
     • Select the ellipses ... from the left pane. The drop-down menu appears.
     • Select Manage Team, then select Apps
     • Then select Upload a custom app from the lower right corner.
     • Then select the manifest.zip file from AppManifest, and then select Add to add the bot to your selected team.

Note: If you are facing any issue in your app, please uncomment this line and put your debugger for local debug.

Interacting with the bot in Teams

Select a channel and enter a message in the channel for your bot.

The bot receives the message without being @mentioned.

Running the sample

• Showing Welcome message

• Showing messages based on option selected

• Adding to group chat

• Receives messages in group chat without being @mentioned.

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
• Azure Bot Service Introduction
• Azure Bot Service Documentation
• Receive Channel messages with RSC