You can explicitly specify the return type of a lambda by using -> Type after the arguments list: []() -> Type { } However, if a lambda has one statement and that statement is a return statement (and it returns an expression), the compiler can deduce the return type from the type of that one … Read more
Tracing through Fraser’s sample code in his connect bug (https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/747145) with VS2012 RTM seems to show a fairly straightforward case of deadlocking. This likely isn’t specific to std::thread – likely _beginthreadex suffers the same fate. What I see in the debugger is the following: On the main thread, the main() function has completed, the process … Read more
In the Project Properties, make sure to select the Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler Nov 2012 CTP: The new toolchain does not replace the existing Visual C++ 2012 toolchain, and it is not enabled by default. It’s installed side-by-side with the existing toolchain. If you select the new toolchain, your program will compiler without error.
It’s worth noting that Visual Studio 2010 already had quite a bit of early C++11 support. So to summarize what is already linked to in other answers, here is what is new in Visual Studio 11 that was not part of Visual Studio 2010: rvalue references to version 2.1 from 2.0 lambdas to version 1.1 … Read more