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C++ REST SDK 1.1.0 is now available

July 10, 2013 Jul 10, 2013 07/10/13
Sana Mithani
C++ REST SDK 1.1.0 has been released on CodePlex.  This version of the C++ REST SDK reintroduces the much anticipated the HTTP Listener library. Developers can now complete their REST story by creating their own server to respond to requests sent by client applications. For more information about this release and to view the sources, ...

Intercepting HTTP Request/Response using C++ Rest HTTP Library

July 10, 2013 Jul 10, 2013 07/10/13
Kavya Kotacherry
We released the C++ REST SDK (codename "Casablanca") as an open source project on CodePlex in Feb 2013. It enables writing modern, asynchronous C++ code that can connect with REST services. Using the C++ REST SDK, you can create an HTTP client that can connect to HTTP server, send requests and handle responses. The following links are pre-...

MFC support for MBCS deprecated in Visual Studio 2013

July 8, 2013 Jul 8, 2013 07/8/13
Pat Brenner MSFT
April 2017 update Regarding our work on migration to VC2015 last year, we decided to remove the warning about MBCS deprecation.We hear you and understand that too many "old and large" MFC projects depend on it and it is too costly for large projects to move to Unicode. For new or small existing projects we definitely recommend using Unicode, ...

Optimizing C++ Code : Constant-Folding

July 4, 2013 Jul 4, 2013 07/4/13
Jim Hogg
If you have arrived in the middle of this blog series, you might want instead to begin at the beginning.This post examines Constant-Folding – one of the simplest optimizations performed by the VC++ compiler.  In this optimization, the compiler works out the result of an expression while it is compiling (at “compile-time&rdquo...

Improved exception reporting for C++ Windows Store Apps in Visual Studio 2013

July 1, 2013 Jul 1, 2013 07/1/13
Cagri Aslan
Windows 8.1 and Visual Studio 2013 come with improvements for exception reporting in the platform and the debugger which will make it easier for native Windows Store App developers to diagnose errors in their applications. In this post, I’ll discuss a few of those improvements that are available in Visual Studio 2013 and show the ...

C++11/14 STL Features, Fixes, And Breaking Changes In VS 2013

June 28, 2013 Jun 28, 2013 06/28/13
Stephan T. Lavavej - MSFT
I'm Stephan T. Lavavej, and for the last six and a half years I've been working with Dinkumware to maintain the C++ Standard Library implementation in Visual C++.  It's been a while since my last VCBlog post, because getting our latest batch of changes ready to ship has kept me very busy, but now I have time to write up what we've done...

What’s New for Visual C++ Developers in VS2013 Preview

June 27, 2013 Jun 27, 2013 06/27/13
Eric Battalio
Since the newer Visual C++ content is not yet live on MSDN, I copied the key bits from the "What's New for Visual C++ Developers" and replicated it below. Note that this post may be removed after the MSDN content has been available for a few weeks.Thanks for your patience!Improved ISO C/C++ Standards SupportCompiler The default ...

Just My Code for C++ in VS 2013

June 26, 2013 Jun 26, 2013 06/26/13
Visual CPP Team
If you have experience debugging C# or Visual Basic code in Visual Studio, you are probably familiar with a debugging feature called Just My Code (JMC).  In Visual Studio 2013, we introduce Just My Code for C++.  In VS2013, the goal of this C++ JMC feature is to help the user focus on their code when viewing call stacks without ...