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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...
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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.
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Jul 23, 2026
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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
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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
Jul 22, 2026
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Visual Studio Code 1.130 (Insiders)
Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.130 (Insiders)
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VS Code Blog
Jul 22, 2026
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Pure Virtual C++ 2026 Is a Wrap
Pure Virtual C++ 2026 is a wrap. Every featured and on-demand session is now available on YouTube — catch up on C++/Rust interop, AI-driven tooling, build performance, and more.
C++ Team Blog
Jul 22, 2026
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Windows App Development CLI v0.5.0 - expanded UI automation, JS/TS bindings, and more
WinApp CLI v0.5.0 greatly expands the UI automation toolkit (recording, touch, pen, and keyboard injection), lets you call Windows Runtime APIs straight from JavaScript and TypeScript with zero native addons, and makes WinUI crashes far easier to diagnose. Get the update by running...
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Jul 22, 2026
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Building Agents that Act on Your Behalf with Toolboxes in Foundry
Linda,
Maria
How Toolboxes in Foundry simplify user delegation
At some point, many agents move from answering questions to taking action. And when it does, the question becomes: whose identity is it acting with? Imagine you are building an internal employee agent. It needs to...
Microsoft Foundry Blog
Jul 22, 2026
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Making an agile version of a Windows Runtime delegate in C++/WinRT, part 3
The object that actively refuses to be marshaled.
The Old New Thing
Jul 22, 2026
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The Microsoft Agent Framework Harness is now released
Your agents can now be built on a stable, batteries-included harness - the loop, planning, memory, context management, approvals, and telemetry that turn a model into an agent that actually does things - in both Python and .NET.
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An agent harness is the...
Microsoft Agent Framework
Jul 21, 2026
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Pure Virtual C++ 2026 Is Now Live!
Pure Virtual C++ 2026 is streaming now — watch five featured sessions live with Q&A, plus a full on-demand playlist, all free.
C++ Team Blog