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C++/WinRT Available on GitHub

October 13, 2016 Oct 13, 2016 10/13/16
Eric Battalio
C++/WinRT is now available on GitHub. This is the future of the Modern C++ project and the first public preview coming officially from Microsoft. https://github.com/microsoft/cppwinrt C++/WinRT is a standard C++ language projection for the Windows Runtime implemented solely in header files. It allows you to both author and consume Windows ...

Using C++ Coroutines to simplify async UWP code

April 4, 2016 Apr 4, 2016 04/4/16
EricMittelette
The Universal Windows Platform (UWP) introduced many async APIs; there are now almost 1700 of them. In fact, the team switched every API that could take 50ms or more to complete to async mode. Coding with the async pattern is not an easy task, especially in C++ where you have to create a ppl task and use a continuation (.then) with some ...

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...

C9::GoingNative 2: the Windows Runtime Library (WRL)

October 4, 2011 Oct 4, 2011 10/4/11
Visual CPP Team
(image) We're back with the third installment of C9::GoingNative. At the recent //BUILD conference, we introduced a series of technologies targeting the upcoming version of the Windows platform. One of those consists in some extensions to the C++ language, intended to help developers bridge their C++ logic to the Windows Runtime (WinRT) ...