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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...
Read moreClick to read more about this postHow 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.
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Jun 30, 2026
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2026 mid-year link clearance
Made it to another midpoint.
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Jun 30, 2026
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A compatibility note on the abuse of Windows window class extra bytes
Finding an illicit place to hide data.
The Old New Thing
Jun 30, 2026
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🚀React Native Windows v0.84 is here!!
Vineeth,
Vivek,
Sourav
We're excited to release React Native Windows 0.84.0, aligned with React Native 0.84.1. React Native Windows v0.84 delivers input-handling improvements such as standard click events and imperative focus, theme-aware defaults and robust hit-testing semantics.
🔥 What's New in RNW...
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Jun 29, 2026
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.NET 8 and .NET 9 will reach End of Support on November 10, 2026
.NET 8 and .NET 9 will both reach end of support on November 10, 2026. Learn what this means and how to upgrade to .NET 10 (LTS).
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Jun 29, 2026
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SkiaSharp 4.0 is here: announcing the first stable release
SkiaSharp 4.148.0 is the first stable release of SkiaSharp v4. Learn what is new, why you should be excited, and join the SkiaSharp live event on June 30.
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Jun 29, 2026
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Packaging and Package Identity for .NET apps with WinApp CLI on Windows
Use the WinApp CLI to add identity to and package .NET desktop applications, enabling deeper integration to Windows and easier distribution.
.NET Blog
Jun 29, 2026
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WSL container is now available for public preview
At Microsoft Build 2026, we introduced WSL containers, bringing Linux container development directly into Windows through the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). Containers have become a foundational part of modern development - from cloud-native applications and AI workloads to testing...
Windows Command Line
Jun 29, 2026
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Automating your Visual Studio extension builds with GitHub Actions
If you’re building and maintaining Visual Studio extensions, you’ve probably ended up with some sort of build and publishing workflow - whether it’s manual, scripted, or stitched together over time.
This post is for extension authors who want a simple, repeatable way to build,...
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Jun 29, 2026
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The evolution of window and class extra bytes in Windows
The intended usage is encoded in the prefix.
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