diff --git a/templates/vsc/js/basic-custom-engine-agent/infra/azure.bicep.tpl b/templates/vsc/js/basic-custom-engine-agent/infra/azure.bicep.tpl
index 6adb2e7b4a4..41aad4d240f 100644
--- a/templates/vsc/js/basic-custom-engine-agent/infra/azure.bicep.tpl
+++ b/templates/vsc/js/basic-custom-engine-agent/infra/azure.bicep.tpl
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ resource webApp 'Microsoft.Web/sites@2021-02-01' = {
         }
         {
           name: 'WEBSITE_NODE_DEFAULT_VERSION'
-          value: '~18' // Set NodeJS version to 18.x for your site
+          value: '~22' // Set NodeJS version to 22.x for your site
         }
         {
           name: 'RUNNING_ON_AZURE'
diff --git a/templates/vsc/js/basic-custom-engine-agent/package.json.tpl b/templates/vsc/js/basic-custom-engine-agent/package.json.tpl
index fee24ca6133..5d5deecf890 100644
--- a/templates/vsc/js/basic-custom-engine-agent/package.json.tpl
+++ b/templates/vsc/js/basic-custom-engine-agent/package.json.tpl
@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@
         "teamsAppId": null
     },
     "description": "Basic Custome Engine Agent with Microsoft 365 Agents SDK",
-    "engines": {
-        "node": "18 || 20 || 22"
-    },
     "author": "Microsoft",
     "license": "MIT",
     "main": "./src/index.js",
@@ -27,13 +24,12 @@
     "dependencies": {
         "@azure/identity": "^4.8.0",
         "@azure/openai": "^2.0.0",
-        "@microsoft/agents-hosting": "^0.2.14",
-        "express": "^5.0.1",
+        "@microsoft/agents-hosting-express": "^1.0.0",
         "openai": "^4.94.0"
     },
     "devDependencies": {
         "env-cmd": "^10.1.0",
-        "nodemon": "^3.1.7",
+        "nodemon": "^3.1.10",
         "shx": "^0.3.3"
     }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/templates/vsc/js/basic-custom-engine-agent/src/adapter.js b/templates/vsc/js/basic-custom-engine-agent/src/adapter.js
deleted file mode 100644
index 9780383b53d..00000000000
--- a/templates/vsc/js/basic-custom-engine-agent/src/adapter.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-const { CloudAdapter, loadAuthConfigFromEnv } = require("@microsoft/agents-hosting");
-
-// Create authentication configuration
-const authConfig = loadAuthConfigFromEnv();
-
-// Create adapter
-const adapter = new CloudAdapter(authConfig);
-
-// Catch-all for errors.
-const onTurnErrorHandler = async (context, error) => {
-  // This check writes out errors to console log .vs. app insights.
-  // NOTE: In production environment, you should consider logging this to Azure
-  //       application insights.
-  console.error(`\n [onTurnError] unhandled error: ${error}`);
-
-  // Only send error message for user messages, not for other message types so the agent doesn't spam a channel or chat.
-  if (context.activity.type === "message") {
-    // Send a trace activity, which will be displayed in Bot Framework Emulator
-    await context.sendTraceActivity(
-      "OnTurnError Trace",
-      `${error}`,
-      "https://www.botframework.com/schemas/error",
-      "TurnError"
-    );
-
-    // Send a message to the user
-    await context.sendActivity("The agent encountered an error or bug.");
-    await context.sendActivity("To continue to run this agent, please fix the agent source code.");
-  }
-};
-
-// Set the onTurnError for the singleton TeamsAdapter.
-adapter.onTurnError = onTurnErrorHandler;
-
-module.exports = adapter;
diff --git a/templates/vsc/js/basic-custom-engine-agent/src/agent.js.tpl b/templates/vsc/js/basic-custom-engine-agent/src/agent.js.tpl
index 9ddfb8b59a2..2896c0fcd91 100644
--- a/templates/vsc/js/basic-custom-engine-agent/src/agent.js.tpl
+++ b/templates/vsc/js/basic-custom-engine-agent/src/agent.js.tpl
@@ -25,12 +25,12 @@ const agentApp = new AgentApplication({
   storage,
 });
 
-agentApp.conversationUpdate("membersAdded", async (context) => {
+agentApp.onConversationUpdate("membersAdded", async (context) => {
   await context.sendActivity(`Hi there! I'm an agent to chat with you.`);
 });
 
 // Listen for ANY message to be received. MUST BE AFTER ANY OTHER MESSAGE HANDLERS
-agentApp.activity(ActivityTypes.Message, async (context) => {
+agentApp.onActivity(ActivityTypes.Message, async (context) => {
   // Echo back users request
   const result = await client.chat.completions.create({
     messages: [
diff --git a/templates/vsc/js/basic-custom-engine-agent/src/index.js b/templates/vsc/js/basic-custom-engine-agent/src/index.js
index d65761ec827..ae654c4d5c9 100644
--- a/templates/vsc/js/basic-custom-engine-agent/src/index.js
+++ b/templates/vsc/js/basic-custom-engine-agent/src/index.js
@@ -1,28 +1,3 @@
-// Import required packages
-const { authorizeJWT, loadAuthConfigFromEnv } = require("@microsoft/agents-hosting");
-const express = require("express");
-
-// This bot's adapter
-const adapter = require("./adapter");
-
-// This bot's main dialog.
+const { startServer } = require("@microsoft/agents-hosting-express");
 const { agentApp } = require("./agent");
-
-// Create authentication configuration
-const authConfig = loadAuthConfigFromEnv();
-
-// Create express application.
-const expressApp = express();
-expressApp.use(express.json());
-expressApp.use(authorizeJWT(authConfig));
-
-const server = expressApp.listen(process.env.port || process.env.PORT || 3978, () => {
-  console.log(`\nAgent started, ${expressApp.name} listening to`, server.address());
-});
-
-// Listen for incoming requests.
-expressApp.post("/api/messages", async (req, res) => {
-  await adapter.process(req, res, async (context) => {
-    await agentApp.run(context);
-  });
-});
+startServer(agentApp);
diff --git a/templates/vsc/js/default-bot/teamsBot.js b/templates/vsc/js/default-bot/agent.js
similarity index 75%
rename from templates/vsc/js/default-bot/teamsBot.js
rename to templates/vsc/js/default-bot/agent.js
index f8579d65b6f..ff513895a40 100644
--- a/templates/vsc/js/default-bot/teamsBot.js
+++ b/templates/vsc/js/default-bot/agent.js
@@ -10,33 +10,33 @@ const downloader = new AttachmentDownloader();
 
 // Define storage and application
 const storage = new MemoryStorage();
-const teamsBot = new AgentApplication({
+const agentApp = new AgentApplication({
   storage,
   fileDownloaders: [downloader],
 });
 
 // Listen for user to say '/reset' and then delete conversation state
-teamsBot.message("/reset", async (context, state) => {
+agentApp.onMessage("/reset", async (context, state) => {
   state.deleteConversationState();
   await context.sendActivity("Ok I've deleted the current conversation state.");
 });
 
-teamsBot.message("/count", async (context, state) => {
+agentApp.onMessage("/count", async (context, state) => {
   const count = state.conversation.count ?? 0;
   await context.sendActivity(`The count is ${count}`);
 });
 
-teamsBot.message("/diag", async (context, state) => {
+agentApp.onMessage("/diag", async (context, state) => {
   await state.load(context, storage);
   await context.sendActivity(JSON.stringify(context.activity));
 });
 
-teamsBot.message("/state", async (context, state) => {
+agentApp.onMessage("/state", async (context, state) => {
   await state.load(context, storage);
   await context.sendActivity(JSON.stringify(state));
 });
 
-teamsBot.message("/runtime", async (context, state) => {
+agentApp.onMessage("/runtime", async (context, state) => {
   const runtime = {
     nodeversion: process.version,
     sdkversion: version,
@@ -44,14 +44,14 @@ teamsBot.message("/runtime", async (context, state) => {
   await context.sendActivity(JSON.stringify(runtime));
 });
 
-teamsBot.conversationUpdate("membersAdded", async (context, state) => {
+agentApp.onConversationUpdate("membersAdded", async (context, state) => {
   await context.sendActivity(
     `Hi there! I'm an echo bot running on Agents SDK version ${version} that will echo what you said to me.`
   );
 });
 
 // Listen for ANY message to be received. MUST BE AFTER ANY OTHER MESSAGE HANDLERS
-teamsBot.activity(ActivityTypes.Message, async (context, state) => {
+agentApp.onActivity(ActivityTypes.Message, async (context, state) => {
   // Increment count state
   let count = state.conversation.count ?? 0;
   state.conversation.count = ++count;
@@ -60,15 +60,15 @@ teamsBot.activity(ActivityTypes.Message, async (context, state) => {
   await context.sendActivity(`[${count}] you said: ${context.activity.text}`);
 });
 
-teamsBot.activity(/^message/, async (context, state) => {
+agentApp.onActivity(/^message/, async (context, state) => {
   await context.sendActivity(`Matched with regex: ${context.activity.type}`);
 });
 
-teamsBot.activity(
+agentApp.onActivity(
   async (context) => Promise.resolve(context.activity.type === "message"),
   async (context, state) => {
     await context.sendActivity(`Matched function: ${context.activity.type}`);
   }
 );
 
-module.exports.teamsBot = teamsBot;
+module.exports.agentApp = agentApp;
diff --git a/templates/vsc/js/default-bot/index.js b/templates/vsc/js/default-bot/index.js
index a19e873a856..ae654c4d5c9 100644
--- a/templates/vsc/js/default-bot/index.js
+++ b/templates/vsc/js/default-bot/index.js
@@ -1,56 +1,3 @@
-// index.js is used to setup and configure your bot
-
-// Import required packages
-const express = require("express");
-
-// Import required bot services.
-// See https://aka.ms/bot-services to learn more about the different parts of a bot.
-const { authorizeJWT, CloudAdapter, loadAuthConfigFromEnv } = require("@microsoft/agents-hosting");
-const { teamsBot } = require("./teamsBot");
-
-// Create authentication configuration
-const authConfig = loadAuthConfigFromEnv();
-
-// Create adapter
-const adapter = new CloudAdapter(authConfig);
-
-adapter.onTurnError = async (context, error) => {
-  // This check writes out errors to console log .vs. app insights.
-  // NOTE: In production environment, you should consider logging this to Azure
-  //       application insights. See https://aka.ms/bottelemetry for telemetry
-  //       configuration instructions.
-  console.error(`\n [onTurnError] unhandled error: ${error}`);
-
-  // Only send error message for user messages, not for other message types so the bot doesn't spam a channel or chat.
-  if (context.activity.type === "message") {
-    // Send a message to the user
-    await context.sendActivity(`The bot encountered an unhandled error:\n ${error.message}`);
-    await context.sendActivity("To continue to run this bot, please fix the bot source code.");
-  }
-};
-
-// Create express application.
-const expressApp = express();
-expressApp.use(express.json());
-expressApp.use(authorizeJWT(authConfig));
-
-const port = process.env.port || process.env.PORT || 3978;
-const server = expressApp.listen(port, () => {
-  console.log(
-    `Bot Started, listening to port ${port} for appId ${authConfig.clientId} debug ${process.env.DEBUG}`
-  );
-});
-
-// Listen for incoming requests.
-expressApp.post("/api/messages", async (req, res) => {
-  await adapter.process(req, res, async (context) => {
-    await teamsBot.run(context);
-  });
-});
-
-// Gracefully shutdown HTTP server
-["exit", "uncaughtException", "SIGINT", "SIGTERM", "SIGUSR1", "SIGUSR2"].forEach((event) => {
-  process.on(event, () => {
-    server.close();
-  });
-});
+const { startServer } = require("@microsoft/agents-hosting-express");
+const { agentApp } = require("./agent");
+startServer(agentApp);
diff --git a/templates/vsc/js/default-bot/infra/azure.bicep b/templates/vsc/js/default-bot/infra/azure.bicep
index 3999e8c3a86..d883f5ce16f 100644
--- a/templates/vsc/js/default-bot/infra/azure.bicep
+++ b/templates/vsc/js/default-bot/infra/azure.bicep
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ resource webApp 'Microsoft.Web/sites@2021-02-01' = {
         }
         {
           name: 'WEBSITE_NODE_DEFAULT_VERSION'
-          value: '~18' // Set NodeJS version to 18.x for your site
+          value: '~22' // Set NodeJS version to 22.x for your site
         }
         {
           name: 'RUNNING_ON_AZURE'
diff --git a/templates/vsc/js/default-bot/package.json.tpl b/templates/vsc/js/default-bot/package.json.tpl
index 6355873d6b3..fa7bb843351 100644
--- a/templates/vsc/js/default-bot/package.json.tpl
+++ b/templates/vsc/js/default-bot/package.json.tpl
@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@
       "teamsAppId": null
     },
     "description": "Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit echo bot sample",
-    "engines": {
-        "node": "18 || 20 || 22"
-    },
     "author": "Microsoft",
     "license": "MIT",
     "main": "index.js",
@@ -21,11 +18,10 @@
         "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
     },
     "dependencies": {
-        "@microsoft/agents-hosting": "^0.2.14",
-        "express": "^5.0.1"
+        "@microsoft/agents-hosting-express": "^1.0.0"
     },
     "devDependencies": {
         "env-cmd": "^10.1.0",
-        "nodemon": "^3.1.7"
+        "nodemon": "^3.1.10"
     }
 }
diff --git a/templates/vsc/js/weather-agent/infra/azure.bicep.tpl b/templates/vsc/js/weather-agent/infra/azure.bicep.tpl
index 6adb2e7b4a4..41aad4d240f 100644
--- a/templates/vsc/js/weather-agent/infra/azure.bicep.tpl
+++ b/templates/vsc/js/weather-agent/infra/azure.bicep.tpl
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ resource webApp 'Microsoft.Web/sites@2021-02-01' = {
         }
         {
           name: 'WEBSITE_NODE_DEFAULT_VERSION'
-          value: '~18' // Set NodeJS version to 18.x for your site
+          value: '~22' // Set NodeJS version to 22.x for your site
         }
         {
           name: 'RUNNING_ON_AZURE'
diff --git a/templates/vsc/js/weather-agent/package.json.tpl b/templates/vsc/js/weather-agent/package.json.tpl
index f22f749bb48..e977f6706a4 100644
--- a/templates/vsc/js/weather-agent/package.json.tpl
+++ b/templates/vsc/js/weather-agent/package.json.tpl
@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@
         "teamsAppId": null
     },
     "description": "Weather Agent with Microsoft 365 Agents SDK and LangChain",
-    "engines": {
-        "node": "18 || 20 || 22"
-    },
     "author": "Microsoft",
     "license": "MIT",
     "main": "./src/index.js",
@@ -28,13 +25,11 @@
         "@azure/openai": "^2.0.0",
         "@langchain/langgraph": "^0.2.66",
         "@langchain/openai": "^0.5.6",
-        "@microsoft/agents-hosting": "^0.2.14",
-        "express": "^5.0.1",
-        "zod": "3.25.67"
+        "@microsoft/agents-hosting-express": "^1.0.0"
     },
     "devDependencies": {
         "env-cmd": "^10.1.0",
-        "nodemon": "^3.1.7",
+        "nodemon": "^3.1.10",
         "shx": "^0.3.3"
     },
     "overrides": {
diff --git a/templates/vsc/js/weather-agent/src/agent.js.tpl b/templates/vsc/js/weather-agent/src/agent.js.tpl
index 7d98ae322a9..83488fbb986 100644
--- a/templates/vsc/js/weather-agent/src/agent.js.tpl
+++ b/templates/vsc/js/weather-agent/src/agent.js.tpl
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ const { getWeatherTool } = require("./tools/getWeatherTool");
 
 const weatherAgent = new AgentApplicationBuilder().build();
 
-weatherAgent.conversationUpdate(
+weatherAgent.onConversationUpdate(
   "membersAdded",
   async (context) => {
     await context.sendActivity(
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Respond in JSON format with the following JSON schema, and do not use markdown i
     "content": "{The content of the response, may be plain text, or JSON based adaptive card}"
 }`);
 
-weatherAgent.activity(ActivityTypes.Message, async (context, state) => {
+weatherAgent.onActivity(ActivityTypes.Message, async (context, state) => {
   const llmResponse = await agent.invoke(
     {
       messages: [sysMessage, new HumanMessage(context.activity.text)],
diff --git a/templates/vsc/js/weather-agent/src/index.js b/templates/vsc/js/weather-agent/src/index.js
index 7516fc31c03..ae654c4d5c9 100644
--- a/templates/vsc/js/weather-agent/src/index.js
+++ b/templates/vsc/js/weather-agent/src/index.js
@@ -1,29 +1,3 @@
-// Import required packages
-const { authorizeJWT, CloudAdapter, loadAuthConfigFromEnv } = require("@microsoft/agents-hosting");
-const express = require("express");
-
-// This bot's main dialog.
-const { weatherAgent } = require("./agent");
-
-// Create authentication configuration
-const authConfig = loadAuthConfigFromEnv();
-const adapter = new CloudAdapter(authConfig);
-
-// Create express application.
-const server = express();
-server.use(express.json());
-server.use(authorizeJWT(authConfig));
-
-// Listen for incoming requests.
-server.post("/api/messages", async (req, res) => {
-  await adapter.process(req, res, async (context) => {
-    await weatherAgent.run(context);
-  });
-});
-
-const port = process.env.port || process.env.PORT || 3978;
-server.listen(port, () => {
-  console.log(
-    `\nServer listening to port ${port} for appId ${authConfig.clientId} debug ${process.env.DEBUG}`
-  );
-});
+const { startServer } = require("@microsoft/agents-hosting-express");
+const { agentApp } = require("./agent");
+startServer(agentApp);
diff --git a/templates/vsc/ts/basic-custom-engine-agent/infra/azure.bicep.tpl b/templates/vsc/ts/basic-custom-engine-agent/infra/azure.bicep.tpl
index 6adb2e7b4a4..41aad4d240f 100644
--- a/templates/vsc/ts/basic-custom-engine-agent/infra/azure.bicep.tpl
+++ b/templates/vsc/ts/basic-custom-engine-agent/infra/azure.bicep.tpl
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ resource webApp 'Microsoft.Web/sites@2021-02-01' = {
         }
         {
           name: 'WEBSITE_NODE_DEFAULT_VERSION'
-          value: '~18' // Set NodeJS version to 18.x for your site
+          value: '~22' // Set NodeJS version to 22.x for your site
         }
         {
           name: 'RUNNING_ON_AZURE'
diff --git a/templates/vsc/ts/basic-custom-engine-agent/package.json.tpl b/templates/vsc/ts/basic-custom-engine-agent/package.json.tpl
index c12fa9533c1..27cf0f12ebd 100644
--- a/templates/vsc/ts/basic-custom-engine-agent/package.json.tpl
+++ b/templates/vsc/ts/basic-custom-engine-agent/package.json.tpl
@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@
         "teamsAppId": null
     },
     "description": "Basic Custome Engine Agent with Microsoft 365 Agents SDK",
-    "engines": {
-        "node": "18 || 20 || 22"
-    },
     "author": "Microsoft",
     "license": "MIT",
     "main": "./lib/src/index.js",
@@ -28,17 +25,16 @@
     "dependencies": {
         "@azure/identity": "^4.8.0",
         "@azure/openai": "^2.0.0",
-        "@microsoft/agents-hosting": "^0.2.14",
-        "express": "^5.0.1",
+        "@microsoft/agents-hosting-express": "^1.0.0",
         "openai": "^4.94.0"
     },
     "devDependencies": {
         "@types/express": "^5.0.0",
-        "@types/node": "^18.0.0",
+        "@types/node": "^22.0.0",
         "env-cmd": "^10.1.0",
-        "nodemon": "^3.1.7",
+        "nodemon": "^3.1.10",
         "shx": "^0.3.3",
-        "ts-node": "^10.4.0",
-        "typescript": "^5.5.4"
+        "ts-node": "^10.9.2",
+        "typescript": "^5.8.3"
     }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/templates/vsc/ts/basic-custom-engine-agent/src/adapter.ts b/templates/vsc/ts/basic-custom-engine-agent/src/adapter.ts
deleted file mode 100644
index 5ac047072c8..00000000000
--- a/templates/vsc/ts/basic-custom-engine-agent/src/adapter.ts
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-import { AuthConfiguration, CloudAdapter, loadAuthConfigFromEnv } from "@microsoft/agents-hosting";
-
-// Create authentication configuration
-const authConfig: AuthConfiguration = loadAuthConfigFromEnv();
-
-// Create adapter
-const adapter = new CloudAdapter(authConfig);
-
-// Catch-all for errors.
-const onTurnErrorHandler = async (context, error) => {
-  // This check writes out errors to console log .vs. app insights.
-  // NOTE: In production environment, you should consider logging this to Azure
-  //       application insights.
-  console.error(`\n [onTurnError] unhandled error: ${error}`);
-
-  // Only send error message for user messages, not for other message types so the agent doesn't spam a channel or chat.
-  if (context.activity.type === "message") {
-    // Send a trace activity, which will be displayed in Bot Framework Emulator
-    await context.sendTraceActivity(
-      "OnTurnError Trace",
-      `${error}`,
-      "https://www.botframework.com/schemas/error",
-      "TurnError"
-    );
-
-    // Send a message to the user
-    await context.sendActivity("The agent encountered an error or bug.");
-    await context.sendActivity("To continue to run this agent, please fix the agent source code.");
-  }
-};
-
-// Set the onTurnError for the singleton TeamsAdapter.
-adapter.onTurnError = onTurnErrorHandler;
-
-export default adapter;
diff --git a/templates/vsc/ts/basic-custom-engine-agent/src/agent.ts.tpl b/templates/vsc/ts/basic-custom-engine-agent/src/agent.ts.tpl
index ad156c02a34..8082e531702 100644
--- a/templates/vsc/ts/basic-custom-engine-agent/src/agent.ts.tpl
+++ b/templates/vsc/ts/basic-custom-engine-agent/src/agent.ts.tpl
@@ -24,12 +24,12 @@ export const agentApp = new AgentApplication({
   storage,
 });
 
-agentApp.conversationUpdate("membersAdded", async (context: TurnContext) => {
+agentApp.onConversationUpdate("membersAdded", async (context: TurnContext) => {
   await context.sendActivity(`Hi there! I'm an agent to chat with you.`);
 });
 
 // Listen for ANY message to be received. MUST BE AFTER ANY OTHER MESSAGE HANDLERS
-agentApp.activity(ActivityTypes.Message, async (context: TurnContext) => {
+agentApp.onActivity(ActivityTypes.Message, async (context: TurnContext) => {
   // Echo back users request
   const result = await client.chat.completions.create({
     messages: [
diff --git a/templates/vsc/ts/basic-custom-engine-agent/src/index.ts b/templates/vsc/ts/basic-custom-engine-agent/src/index.ts
index b4f56d57485..25f892be4c0 100644
--- a/templates/vsc/ts/basic-custom-engine-agent/src/index.ts
+++ b/templates/vsc/ts/basic-custom-engine-agent/src/index.ts
@@ -1,33 +1,3 @@
-// Import required packages
-import {
-  AuthConfiguration,
-  authorizeJWT,
-  loadAuthConfigFromEnv,
-  Request,
-} from "@microsoft/agents-hosting";
-import express, { Response } from "express";
-
-// This bot's adapter
-import adapter from "./adapter";
-
-// This bot's main dialog.
+import { startServer } from "@microsoft/agents-hosting-express";
 import { agentApp } from "./agent";
-
-// Create authentication configuration
-const authConfig: AuthConfiguration = loadAuthConfigFromEnv();
-
-// Create express application.
-const expressApp = express();
-expressApp.use(express.json());
-expressApp.use(authorizeJWT(authConfig));
-
-const server = expressApp.listen(process.env.port || process.env.PORT || 3978, () => {
-  console.log(`\nAgent started, ${expressApp.name} listening to`, server.address());
-});
-
-// Listen for incoming requests.
-expressApp.post("/api/messages", async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
-  await adapter.process(req, res, async (context) => {
-    await agentApp.run(context);
-  });
-});
+startServer(agentApp);
diff --git a/templates/vsc/ts/basic-custom-engine-agent/tsconfig.json b/templates/vsc/ts/basic-custom-engine-agent/tsconfig.json
index a68afb21f72..4a2330fdc68 100644
--- a/templates/vsc/ts/basic-custom-engine-agent/tsconfig.json
+++ b/templates/vsc/ts/basic-custom-engine-agent/tsconfig.json
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 {
   "compilerOptions": {
     "declaration": true,
-    "target": "es2017",
+    "target": "es2019",
     "module": "commonjs",
+    "moduleResolution": "node",
     "outDir": "./lib",
     "rootDir": "./",
     "sourceMap": true,
diff --git a/templates/vsc/ts/default-bot/teamsBot.ts b/templates/vsc/ts/default-bot/agent.ts
similarity index 71%
rename from templates/vsc/ts/default-bot/teamsBot.ts
rename to templates/vsc/ts/default-bot/agent.ts
index 63a14fd1bf5..15cb160848d 100644
--- a/templates/vsc/ts/default-bot/teamsBot.ts
+++ b/templates/vsc/ts/default-bot/agent.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ import {
   TurnContext,
   TurnState,
 } from "@microsoft/agents-hosting";
-import { version } from "@microsoft/agents-hosting/package.json";
+import pkg from "@microsoft/agents-hosting/package.json";
 
 interface ConversationState {
   count: number;
@@ -17,51 +17,51 @@ const downloader = new AttachmentDownloader();
 
 // Define storage and application
 const storage = new MemoryStorage();
-export const teamsBot = new AgentApplication<ApplicationTurnState>({
+export const agentApp = new AgentApplication<ApplicationTurnState>({
   storage,
   fileDownloaders: [downloader],
 });
 
 // Listen for user to say '/reset' and then delete conversation state
-teamsBot.message("/reset", async (context: TurnContext, state: ApplicationTurnState) => {
+agentApp.onMessage("/reset", async (context: TurnContext, state: ApplicationTurnState) => {
   state.deleteConversationState();
   await context.sendActivity("Ok I've deleted the current conversation state.");
 });
 
-teamsBot.message("/count", async (context: TurnContext, state: ApplicationTurnState) => {
+agentApp.onMessage("/count", async (context: TurnContext, state: ApplicationTurnState) => {
   const count = state.conversation.count ?? 0;
   await context.sendActivity(`The count is ${count}`);
 });
 
-teamsBot.message("/diag", async (context: TurnContext, state: ApplicationTurnState) => {
+agentApp.onMessage("/diag", async (context: TurnContext, state: ApplicationTurnState) => {
   await state.load(context, storage);
   await context.sendActivity(JSON.stringify(context.activity));
 });
 
-teamsBot.message("/state", async (context: TurnContext, state: ApplicationTurnState) => {
+agentApp.onMessage("/state", async (context: TurnContext, state: ApplicationTurnState) => {
   await state.load(context, storage);
   await context.sendActivity(JSON.stringify(state));
 });
 
-teamsBot.message("/runtime", async (context: TurnContext, state: ApplicationTurnState) => {
+agentApp.onMessage("/runtime", async (context: TurnContext) => {
   const runtime = {
     nodeversion: process.version,
-    sdkversion: version,
+    sdkversion: pkg.version,
   };
   await context.sendActivity(JSON.stringify(runtime));
 });
 
-teamsBot.conversationUpdate(
+agentApp.onConversationUpdate(
   "membersAdded",
   async (context: TurnContext, state: ApplicationTurnState) => {
     await context.sendActivity(
-      `Hi there! I'm an echo bot running on Agents SDK version ${version} that will echo what you said to me.`
+      `Hi there! I'm an echo bot running on Agents SDK version ${pkg.version} that will echo what you said to me.`
     );
   }
 );
 
 // Listen for ANY message to be received. MUST BE AFTER ANY OTHER MESSAGE HANDLERS
-teamsBot.activity(
+agentApp.onActivity(
   ActivityTypes.Message,
   async (context: TurnContext, state: ApplicationTurnState) => {
     // Increment count state
@@ -73,11 +73,11 @@ teamsBot.activity(
   }
 );
 
-teamsBot.activity(/^message/, async (context: TurnContext, state: ApplicationTurnState) => {
+agentApp.onActivity(/^message/, async (context: TurnContext, state: ApplicationTurnState) => {
   await context.sendActivity(`Matched with regex: ${context.activity.type}`);
 });
 
-teamsBot.activity(
+agentApp.onActivity(
   async (context: TurnContext) => Promise.resolve(context.activity.type === "message"),
   async (context, state) => {
     await context.sendActivity(`Matched function: ${context.activity.type}`);
diff --git a/templates/vsc/ts/default-bot/index.ts b/templates/vsc/ts/default-bot/index.ts
index c1427a9e0c7..25f892be4c0 100644
--- a/templates/vsc/ts/default-bot/index.ts
+++ b/templates/vsc/ts/default-bot/index.ts
@@ -1,68 +1,3 @@
-import {
-  AuthConfiguration,
-  authorizeJWT,
-  CloudAdapter,
-  loadAuthConfigFromEnv,
-  Request,
-  TurnContext,
-} from "@microsoft/agents-hosting";
-import express, { Response } from "express";
-
-import { teamsBot } from "./teamsBot";
-
-// Create authentication configuration
-const authConfig: AuthConfiguration = loadAuthConfigFromEnv();
-
-// Create adapter
-const adapter = new CloudAdapter(authConfig);
-
-// Catch-all for errors.
-const onTurnErrorHandler = async (context: TurnContext, error: Error) => {
-  // This check writes out errors to console log .vs. app insights.
-  // NOTE: In production environment, you should consider logging this to Azure
-  //       application insights.
-  console.error(`\n [onTurnError] unhandled error: ${error}`);
-
-  // Only send error message for user messages, not for other message types so the bot doesn't spam a channel or chat.
-  if (context.activity.type === "message") {
-    // Send a trace activity
-    await context.sendTraceActivity(
-      "OnTurnError Trace",
-      `${error}`,
-      "https://www.botframework.com/schemas/error",
-      "TurnError"
-    );
-
-    // Send a message to the user
-    await context.sendActivity(`The bot encountered unhandled error:\n ${error.message}`);
-    await context.sendActivity("To continue to run this bot, please fix the bot source code.");
-  }
-};
-
-// Set the onTurnError for the singleton CloudAdapter.
-adapter.onTurnError = onTurnErrorHandler;
-
-// Create express application
-const server = express();
-server.use(express.json());
-server.use(authorizeJWT(authConfig));
-
-// Listen for incoming requests.
-server.post("/api/messages", async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
-  await adapter.process(req, res, async (context) => {
-    await teamsBot.run(context);
-  });
-});
-
-// Start the server
-const port = process.env.PORT || 3978;
-server
-  .listen(port, () => {
-    console.log(
-      `Bot Started, listening to port ${port} for appId ${authConfig.clientId} debug ${process.env.DEBUG}`
-    );
-  })
-  .on("error", (err) => {
-    console.error(err);
-    process.exit(1);
-  });
+import { startServer } from "@microsoft/agents-hosting-express";
+import { agentApp } from "./agent";
+startServer(agentApp);
diff --git a/templates/vsc/ts/default-bot/infra/azure.bicep b/templates/vsc/ts/default-bot/infra/azure.bicep
index 3999e8c3a86..d883f5ce16f 100644
--- a/templates/vsc/ts/default-bot/infra/azure.bicep
+++ b/templates/vsc/ts/default-bot/infra/azure.bicep
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ resource webApp 'Microsoft.Web/sites@2021-02-01' = {
         }
         {
           name: 'WEBSITE_NODE_DEFAULT_VERSION'
-          value: '~18' // Set NodeJS version to 18.x for your site
+          value: '~22' // Set NodeJS version to 22.x for your site
         }
         {
           name: 'RUNNING_ON_AZURE'
diff --git a/templates/vsc/ts/default-bot/package.json.tpl b/templates/vsc/ts/default-bot/package.json.tpl
index 05a14501a6c..9d557b48479 100644
--- a/templates/vsc/ts/default-bot/package.json.tpl
+++ b/templates/vsc/ts/default-bot/package.json.tpl
@@ -2,9 +2,6 @@
     "name": "{{SafeProjectNameLowerCase}}",
     "version": "1.0.0",
     "description": "Microsoft 365 Agents Toolkit echo bot sample",
-    "engines": {
-        "node": "18 || 20 || 22"
-    },
     "author": "Microsoft",
     "license": "MIT",
     "main": "./lib/index.js",
@@ -23,16 +20,15 @@
         "url": "https://github.com"
     },
     "dependencies": {
-        "@microsoft/agents-hosting": "^0.2.14",
-        "express": "^5.0.1"
+        "@microsoft/agents-hosting-express": "^1.0.0"
     },
-    "devDependencies": {
+    "devvDependencies": {
         "@types/express": "^5.0.0",
-        "@types/node": "^18.0.0",
+        "@types/node": "^22.0.0",
         "env-cmd": "^10.1.0",
-        "nodemon": "^3.1.7",
+        "nodemon": "^3.1.10",
         "shx": "^0.3.3",
-        "ts-node": "^10.4.0",
-        "typescript": "^4.4.4"
+        "ts-node": "^10.9.2",
+        "typescript": "^5.8.3"
     }
 }
diff --git a/templates/vsc/ts/default-bot/tsconfig.json b/templates/vsc/ts/default-bot/tsconfig.json
index 385a05ba674..852f5750086 100644
--- a/templates/vsc/ts/default-bot/tsconfig.json
+++ b/templates/vsc/ts/default-bot/tsconfig.json
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 {
   "compilerOptions": {
     "declaration": true,
-    "target": "es2017",
+    "target": "es2019",
     "module": "commonjs",
+    "moduleResolution": "node",
     "outDir": "./lib",
     "rootDir": "./",
-    "moduleResolution": "nodenext",
     "sourceMap": true,
     "incremental": true,
     "tsBuildInfoFile": "./lib/.tsbuildinfo",
diff --git a/templates/vsc/ts/weather-agent/infra/azure.bicep.tpl b/templates/vsc/ts/weather-agent/infra/azure.bicep.tpl
index 6adb2e7b4a4..41aad4d240f 100644
--- a/templates/vsc/ts/weather-agent/infra/azure.bicep.tpl
+++ b/templates/vsc/ts/weather-agent/infra/azure.bicep.tpl
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ resource webApp 'Microsoft.Web/sites@2021-02-01' = {
         }
         {
           name: 'WEBSITE_NODE_DEFAULT_VERSION'
-          value: '~18' // Set NodeJS version to 18.x for your site
+          value: '~22' // Set NodeJS version to 22.x for your site
         }
         {
           name: 'RUNNING_ON_AZURE'
diff --git a/templates/vsc/ts/weather-agent/package.json.tpl b/templates/vsc/ts/weather-agent/package.json.tpl
index d2fd9f2b9a6..796f395869e 100644
--- a/templates/vsc/ts/weather-agent/package.json.tpl
+++ b/templates/vsc/ts/weather-agent/package.json.tpl
@@ -5,9 +5,6 @@
         "teamsAppId": null
     },
     "description": "Weather Agent with Microsoft 365 Agents SDK and LangChain",
-    "engines": {
-        "node": "18 || 20 || 22"
-    },
     "author": "Microsoft",
     "license": "MIT",
     "main": "./lib/src/index.js",
@@ -29,21 +26,22 @@
         "@azure/openai": "^2.0.0",
         "@langchain/langgraph": "^0.2.66",
         "@langchain/openai": "^0.5.6",
-        "@microsoft/agents-hosting": "^0.2.14",
-        "express": "^5.0.1",
-        "zod": "3.25.67"
+        "@microsoft/agents-hosting-express": "^1.0.0"
     },
     "devDependencies": {
         "@types/express": "^5.0.0",
-        "@types/node": "^18.0.0",
+        "@types/node": "^22.0.0",
         "env-cmd": "^10.1.0",
-        "nodemon": "^3.1.7",
+        "nodemon": "^3.1.10",
         "shx": "^0.3.3",
-        "ts-node": "^10.4.0",
-        "typescript": "^5.5.4"
+        "ts-node": "^10.9.2",
+        "typescript": "^5.8.3"
     },
     "overrides": {
-        "**": {
+        "@microsoft/agents-activity": {
+            "zod": "3.25.67"
+        },
+        "@langchain/core": {
             "zod": "3.25.67"
         }
     }
diff --git a/templates/vsc/ts/weather-agent/src/agent.ts.tpl b/templates/vsc/ts/weather-agent/src/agent.ts.tpl
index fe01280c35d..d6fadc8ffaf 100644
--- a/templates/vsc/ts/weather-agent/src/agent.ts.tpl
+++ b/templates/vsc/ts/weather-agent/src/agent.ts.tpl
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import { getWeatherTool } from "./tools/getWeatherTool";
 
 export const weatherAgent = new AgentApplicationBuilder().build();
 
-weatherAgent.conversationUpdate(
+weatherAgent.onConversationUpdate(
   "membersAdded",
   async (context: TurnContext) => {
     await context.sendActivity(
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ Respond in JSON format with the following JSON schema, and do not use markdown i
     "content": "{The content of the response, may be plain text, or JSON based adaptive card}"
 }`);
 
-weatherAgent.activity(ActivityTypes.Message, async (context, state) => {
+weatherAgent.onActivity(ActivityTypes.Message, async (context, state) => {
   const llmResponse = await agent.invoke(
     {
       messages: [sysMessage, new HumanMessage(context.activity.text!)],
diff --git a/templates/vsc/ts/weather-agent/src/index.ts b/templates/vsc/ts/weather-agent/src/index.ts
index 876aa2ece49..8e57b88f43b 100644
--- a/templates/vsc/ts/weather-agent/src/index.ts
+++ b/templates/vsc/ts/weather-agent/src/index.ts
@@ -1,35 +1,3 @@
-// Import required packages
-import {
-  AuthConfiguration,
-  authorizeJWT,
-  CloudAdapter,
-  loadAuthConfigFromEnv,
-  Request,
-} from "@microsoft/agents-hosting";
-import express, { Response } from "express";
-
-// This bot's main dialog.
+import { startServer } from "@microsoft/agents-hosting-express";
 import { weatherAgent } from "./agent";
-
-// Create authentication configuration
-const authConfig: AuthConfiguration = loadAuthConfigFromEnv();
-const adapter = new CloudAdapter(authConfig);
-
-// Create express application.
-const server = express();
-server.use(express.json());
-server.use(authorizeJWT(authConfig));
-
-// Listen for incoming requests.
-server.post("/api/messages", async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
-  await adapter.process(req, res, async (context) => {
-    await weatherAgent.run(context);
-  });
-});
-
-const port = process.env.port || process.env.PORT || 3978;
-server.listen(port, () => {
-  console.log(
-    `\nServer listening to port ${port} for appId ${authConfig.clientId} debug ${process.env.DEBUG}`
-  );
-});
+startServer(weatherAgent);
diff --git a/templates/vsc/ts/weather-agent/tsconfig.json b/templates/vsc/ts/weather-agent/tsconfig.json
index a68afb21f72..4a2330fdc68 100644
--- a/templates/vsc/ts/weather-agent/tsconfig.json
+++ b/templates/vsc/ts/weather-agent/tsconfig.json
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
 {
   "compilerOptions": {
     "declaration": true,
-    "target": "es2017",
+    "target": "es2019",
     "module": "commonjs",
+    "moduleResolution": "node",
     "outDir": "./lib",
     "rootDir": "./",
     "sourceMap": true,