December Refresh Available

Question

Another release (0.5) is now available for download.

The biggest addition in this release is the support for the Windows Azure Service Bus. This feature is hot off the press, so any feedback on it is particularly appreciated. To get started, read the azureservicebusqueues.html and azureservicebustopics.html in Documents folder (after unpacking it from the Casablanca_Samples.zip file) and follow the tutorial.

We're aware of a performance degradation that was reported by the user Yoav G. We were able to reproduce the problem and working on the fix, but the fix didn't make it into this release.

Other notable additions in this release are:

• Improved support of authentication in http_client
• Improved performance of JSON parser
• Improve performance of http_client by using a bigger internal buffer

This is our last release for the year. The next big milestone for us will be the release of Casablanca as open source on GitHub, with support for both Windows and Linux. This is tentatively planned for January.

Thanks for ongoing support and stay tuned for more news!

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Artur Laksberg Visual C++ Team Microsoft