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Installers:Axum is an incubation project from Microsoft’s Parallel Computing Platform that aims to validate a safe and productive parallel programming model for the .NET framework. It’s a language that builds upon the architecture of the web and the principles of isolation, actors, and message-passing to increase application safety, responsiveness, scalability and developer productivity. Other advanced concepts we are exploring are data flow networks, asynchronous methods, and type annotations for taming side-effects. Axum Lite:Contains the Axum command-line compiler and Axum runtime as well as the sample projects.Programmer's Guide:Use this simple and easy to follow programmer's guide to learn how to create safe, scalable, and responsive applications with the Axum language.Language Specification:A detailed specification of the Axum language.

Files

Status: Deleted This download is no longer available on microsoft.com. The downloads below are archives provided by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine from the Microsoft Download Center prior to April 2023.

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Axum Language Spec.docx
Axum Language Spec.pdf SHA1: 260197bbcc7b476710d50c98d9a299746ccbb878 Size: 827 KB
Axum Programmers Guide.docx
Axum Programmers Guide.pdf SHA1: 7da31621c4e7e26fc4352929e6e8ef7dd8d95684 Size: 1.01 MB
AxumLite.zip SHA1: 73b7a2fd8c992d8e129ab0d50181ec2b2b350cb6 Size: 1.54 MB
Axum_VS_2008.msi
Axum_VS_2010.msi SHA1: af230da2b72429ea12b6a617eac31358f780208c Size: 4.89 MB

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Installers:Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 or Microsoft Visual Studio 2010Axum Lite:Microsoft .NET 3.5. For the sample projects, Visual Studio 2008 or higher is required.Programmer's Guide:Microsoft Word 2007 or Adobe ReaderLanguage Specification:Microsoft Word 2007 or Adobe Reader

Installer:1. Download and Install Microsoft Axum.2. Launch by opening Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 or Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and creating a new Axum Project.Programmer's Guide:1. Download the file and open it in the corresponding viewer.Language Specification:1. Download the file and open it in the corresponding viewer.