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Asynchronous programming in C++ using resumable functions and await

December 20, 2013 Dec 20, 2013 12/20/13
Raman Sharma
As you know we recently released the Visual C++ Compiler November 2013 CTP. One of the many features in this CTP is the support for resumable functions and await. In this blog post, I want to touch upon some examples where these features make the experience of programming with asynchronous API much simpler. Example 1 The first example we are...

Announcing Casablanca refresh

June 27, 2012 Jun 27, 2012 06/27/12
Visual CPP Team
Back, at the end of April, we announced our first release of Casablanca as an incubation project on Devlabs. Since then, we are glad to have received a positive response from the C++ community. Today, we are announcing a “bug-fix” refresh to the Casablanca release. The update can be downloaded from the Casablanca devlabs site....

Announcing Casablanca, a native library to access the cloud from C++

April 30, 2012 Apr 30, 2012 04/30/12
Visual CPP Team
Our devices are becoming increasingly connected, and at the same time our customers expect the applications running on those devices to be fast and fluid. Asynchrony is important on the client for responsiveness and on the server for scalability.Today we are announcing Casablanca, a Microsoft incubation effort to support cloud based client-...