Sending automated messages to MS Teams channel using .NET 4.7.2

Question

Was wondering if there were any tutorials on how to send messages to a MS Teams channel using a .NET Framework service? I've been looking at two different nuget packages Microsoft.Bot.Connector.Teams and Microsoft.Bot.Builder. Any suggestions would be a great help, thanks.

Answer 1

It's certainly possible to use the Bot approach, to send a "proactive" message (as it's called when the bot initiates the conversation, as opposed to just replying to a user). However, you haven't mentioned if you actually have a bot already?

If you do have a bot, I've given some guidance on sending the pro-active message at Programmatically sending a message to a bot in Microsoft Teams .

If you don't have a bot already though, a more simple approach is just to use an incoming webhook .