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Building Agents for Teams: Turning conversations into outcomes

The Microsoft Teams platform mission is to build the best collaborative platform in the world. We want to make it easy for developers to build agents that participate seamlessly in chats, channels, and meetings, helping teams turn ideas into action in real time. By bringing agents...

The case of the invalid function pointer when shutting down the display control panel

Watching the bits disappear.

How to test agent skills without hitting real APIs

Your agent skill calls an API. The moment you start evaluating it, every run either costs money or mutates production data. Learn how to mock APIs transparently so you can run evals without changing your skill or hitting real endpoints.

Jul 24, 2026

Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 5

Raymond Chen

Making sure to use the non-agile delegate non-agile-ly.

The Old New Thing

Jul 24, 2026

Native Agent Memory for Microsoft Agent Framework, Powered by Azure Cosmos DB

Theo van Kraay

Recently we introduced the Agent Memory Toolkit and the Agentic Retrieval Toolkit for Azure Cosmos DB. The Agent Memory Toolkit gives your agents durable, Cosmos-backed memory: it stores raw conversation turns and then distills them into higher-value derived memories (thread summaries,...

Azure Cosmos DB Blog

Jul 23, 2026

The Microsoft 365 Copilot Agent’s Playbook: A Practical Livestream Series for Building Better Agents

Shavonna Jackson

Building on Microsoft 365 Copilot? Here's your playbook. Declarative agents are quickly becoming one of the most exciting ways to extend Microsoft 365 Copilot and bring organizational knowledge, workflows, and tools directly into the flow of work. But as agent capabilities...

Microsoft for Developers

Jul 23, 2026

Move Agent Orchestration/Workflows out of Code with Agent Framework Declarative Workflows 1.0

Peter Ibekwe

Most multi-agent apps wire every flow in application code: the sequence of steps, branching, and handoffs between agents all live inside the program, making the orchestration harder to review, version, and change. Declarative workflows make that orchestration explicit. In YAML,...

Microsoft Agent Framework

Jul 23, 2026

Build locally, ship to Azure: meet Azure SQL Developer

Carlos,

Vandana

Big news: Azure SQL Developer is here, in private preview. It's the Azure SQL Database engine, on your laptop, in a container. Build against the exact engine you run in the cloud. Ship the same code to Azure. Change one line, the connection string, and you're in production. Free for...

Azure SQL Dev Corner

Jul 23, 2026

Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 4

Raymond Chen

Optimizing the context check.

The Old New Thing

Jul 23, 2026

Smarter Spring Development in Eclipse with GitHub Copilot

Hang,

Sheng,

martinlippert

How the Spring Tools MCP Server and GitHub Copilot together make Spring Development more efficient. Introduction If you write Spring Boot applications in Eclipse, you already know that Spring Tools for Eclipse brings best-in-class tooling right into your IDE, including quick...

Microsoft for Java Developers