Microsoft open sources C++ REST SDK "Casablanca"

Disappointed to see the continued use of wide strings in new projects.

Completely off topic, but was anyone as disoriented as I was to realize they were browsing an Apache-licensed git archive on a Microsoft site? It wasn't even awful (not github, or really even gitorious, but not bad).

I really like that they used the new C++11 features like lambdas etc. Will download and dig through the source code, seems to be one of the first OS projects by a major company which feature C++11.

From what I understand this is a REST client library for making HTTP requests and dealing with JSON. Can anyone recommend a good C++ framework for writing REST services and simple HTTP servers.

What are some good web frameworks in C/C++ to implement REST API?

It's good to see the code using K&#38;R naming convention (sans the class names starting with _).<p>On the other hand, it's written in a C++ dialect that's incompatible with the one we are using. It also has quite a few unnecessary tie-ins into the native API and MSVC compiler specifics (#pragma endregion), so as nice of a gesture this is, it's not fit well for inclusion into other projects.

<p><pre><code> file_stream&#60;unsignedchar&#62;::open_istream(L"myfile.txt").then([](basic_istream&#60;unsignedchar&#62; fileStream) </code></pre> I don't think I've ever seen this C++ idiom before (either the ".then" method or the use of anonymous brackets like that.) Is this common everywhere or just in Windows circles?

Back in the day (~4 yrs ago) there was a project called "Casablanca" at Microsoft which was supposed to be the native (C/C++) version of the Windows Communication Foundation. Is this the same "Casablanca"?

Is this Windows/VisualC++ only or is it portable?