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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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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.

Apr 29, 2026

The New Loop: How Power Pages Builds Software with AI

Priyanshu Agrawal

Introduction When I started writing software professionally in 2015, the tech landscape looked completely different. Tools and frameworks kept evolving since then, but the process of building software barely moved for a decade. That changed in the last couple of months. Here's what has...

Power Platform Developer Blog

Apr 28, 2026

A2A v1 Is Here: Cross-Platform Agent Communication in Microsoft Agent Framework for .NET

Sergey Menshykh

As organizations move from single-agent prototypes to multi-agent production systems, the ability for agents to communicate reliably across platforms and organizational boundaries becomes essential. With the release of A2A Protocol v1.0 and updated support in the Microsoft Agent...

Microsoft Agent Framework

Apr 28, 2026

Visual Studio April Update – Cloud Agent Integration

Mark Downie

GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio is becoming more agentic with every release. This update brings cloud agent integration front and center, letting you start remote coding sessions without leaving the IDE.

Visual Studio Blog

Apr 28, 2026

The problem: All-or-nothing batch processing in Azure Service Bus

Swapnil Nagar

Azure Functions lets you settle each Service Bus message on its own within a batch. Complete, abandon, dead-letter, or defer messages one by one to avoid duplicate processing and handle errors with precision.

Azure SDK Blog

Apr 28, 2026

SharePoint Framework (SPFx) roadmap update – April 2026

Vesa Juvonen

SPFx is powering the future of Microsoft 365 with AI driven portals and deep integrations across SharePoint and Microsoft 365. The April 2026 update shares new features and the roadmap for the next evolution built for the AI era. This is a transparent community driven journey that we shape together.

Microsoft 365 Developer Blog

Apr 28, 2026

Welcome to SkiaSharp 4.0 Preview 1

David Ortinau

SkiaSharp 4.0 Preview 1 is here. Learn all about the new features and how Uno Platform has stepped up as a co-maintainer.

.NET Blog

Apr 28, 2026

High-Performance Distributed Caching with .NET and Postgres on Azure

Jared Meade

Adding caching to your application architecture can significantly improve key performance metrics, cut latency, and reduce load across downstream systems. In this walkthrough, we highlight the latest caching best practices and incorporate these design patterns into a reusable .NET application that you can reference when adding new capabilities to your application stack.

.NET Blog