Anything available to get close to C#'s async patterns?

Question

Right now, I'm solving this issue manually by nesting lambdas and calls to ThreadPool::RunAsync or CoreDispatcher::RunAsync, but it results in a somewhat unwieldy code, if I have to bounce around all the time, just because I need to access properties of UI objects at a certain time only. But I was wondering whether there's code or a set of macros to hide all this away into looking more like what there is in C#.

Thanks!

Answer 1

The closest alternative that's been recommended is to use PPL.

Here's a blog entry from last year : http://blogs.msdn.com/b/nativeconcurrency/archive/2011/10/27/try-it-now-use-ppl-to-produce-windows-8-asynchronous-operations.aspx

The API/syntax may have changed but but it should give you a general idea.

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Answer 2

Here's a code-sample (more recent) :

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/Windows-8-Asynchronous-08009a0d

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Answer 3

Thanks, this looks interesting. But it does run the code async on the thread it's being called on, right? I'm assuming that, because there's nothing special being done in the samples to ensure the UI objects are being accessed on the proper thread.