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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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Apr 23, 2026
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General Availability: Single Sign-On (SSO) from Native Apps to Embedded Web Views in Microsoft Entra External ID Native Authentication
We’re excited to announce the General Availability (GA) of Single Sign-On (SSO) from Native Apps to Embedded Web Views for Microsoft Entra External ID (EEID) Native Authentication.
This release marks a major milestone in delivering end-to-end seamless authentication experiences for...
Microsoft Entra Identity Platform
Apr 23, 2026
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CodeAct in Agent Framework: Faster Agents with Fewer Model Turns
Modern AI agents often aren't bottlenecked by model quality, they are bottlenecked by orchestration overhead. When an agent chains together many small tool calls, each step typically requires a new model turn, driving up latency and token usage.
With CodeAct support in Agent...
Microsoft Agent Framework
Apr 23, 2026
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Another crash caused by uninstaller code injection into Explorer
Inadvertently destroying a staircase while standing on it.
The Old New Thing
Apr 23, 2026
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Lessons Learned from Building a Well-Matching Intelligence Layer
Emmeline,
Oscar,
Kavitha
Key insights from the EDA and Ground Truth journey for solving well identity resolution in the Energy industry—challenges that extend to any entity matching problem across distributed systems.
ISE Developer Blog
Apr 22, 2026
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Take the 2026 ISO C++ Developer Survey!
The 2026 ISO C++ developer survey is now open: 2026 Annual C++ Developer Survey "Lite" : Standard C++
It takes about 10 minutes and directly informs the standardization committee and tooling vendors so the C++ ecosystem can continue evolving the right way. Please share your feedback...
C++ Team Blog
Apr 22, 2026
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C++ Code Intelligence for GitHub Copilot CLI (Preview)
We recently brought C++ code understanding tools to GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio and VS Code. These tools provide precise, semantic understanding of your C++ code to GitHub Copilot using the same IntelliSense engine that powers code navigation in the IDE. Until now, these capabilities...
C++ Team Blog
Apr 22, 2026
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Visual Studio Code 1.117
Learn what's new in Visual Studio Code 1.117
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VS Code Blog