Send Adaptive Card Including Different Actions

10/01/2025

This sample demonstrates how to create and send Adaptive Cards with different action types using a Microsoft Teams bot. It includes features like submitting actions, showing cards, toggling visibility, and more.

Included Features

Bots
Adaptive Cards
Custom Engine Agents

Interaction with app

Module

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. (Uploading must be enabled for your tenant, see steps here).

Microsoft Teams bot adaptivecard actions sample app: Manifest

Prerequisites

Microsoft Teams is installed and you have an account
.NET SDK version 6.0
dev tunnel or ngrok latest version or equivalent tunnelling solution
Teams Microsoft Teams is installed and you have an account
Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit for Visual Studio

Run the app (Using Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit for Visual Studio)

The simplest way to run this sample in Teams is to use Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit for Visual Studio.

Install Visual Studio 2022 Version 17.14 or higher Visual Studio
Install Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit for Visual Studio Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit extension
In the debug dropdown menu of Visual Studio, select Dev Tunnels > Create A Tunnel (set authentication type to Public) or select an existing public dev tunnel.
Right-click the 'M365Agent' project in Solution Explorer and select Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit > Select Microsoft 365 Account
Sign in to Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit with a Microsoft 365 work or school account
Set Startup Item as Microsoft Teams (browser).
Press F5, or select Debug > Start Debugging menu in Visual Studio to start your app
In the opened web browser, select Add button to install the app in Teams

If you do not have permission to upload custom apps (uploading), Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit will recommend creating and using a Microsoft 365 Developer Program account - a free program to get your own dev environment sandbox that includes Teams.

Setup

Setup For Bot
- Register a Microsoft Entra ID aap registration in Azure portal Microsoft Entra ID – App Registrations.
- 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_tunnel_domain>/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.
Run ngrok - point to port 3978
```
ngrok http 3978 --host-header="localhost:3978"
```
Alternatively, you can also use the dev tunnels. Please follow Create and host a dev tunnel and host the tunnel with anonymous user access command as shown below:
```
devtunnel host -p 3978 --allow-anonymous
```
Register a new application in the Microsoft Entra ID – App Registrations portal.

A) Select New Registration and on the register an application page, set following values: * Set name to your app name. * Choose the supported account types (any account type will work) * Leave Redirect URI empty. * Choose Register. B) On the overview page, copy and save the Application (client) ID, Directory (tenant) ID. You'll need those later when updating your Teams application manifest and in the appsettings.json. C) Navigate to API Permissions, and make sure to add the follow permissions: Select Add a permission * Select Add a permission * Select Microsoft Graph -> Delegated permissions. * User.Read (enabled by default) * Click on Add permissions. Please make sure to grant the admin consent for the required permissions.

Setup For Code

Clone the repository

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

If you are using Visual Studio
Launch Visual Studio
File -> Open Folder
Navigate to samples/bot-adaptive-card-actions/csharp/AdaptiveCardActions folder
Select AdaptiveCardActions.sln solution file
Modify the /appsettings.json and fill in the following details:
- {{MicrosoftAppId}} - Generated from Step 1 is the application app id
- {{MicrosoftAppPassword}} - Generated from Step 1, also referred to as Client secret
Press F5 to run the project

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-free.app then your domain-name will be 1234.ngrok-free.app and if you are using dev tunnels then your domain will be like: 12345.devtunnels.ms.
- 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.