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 | Microsoft Axum |
A .NET language for safe, scalable and productive parallel programming through isolation, actors and message-passing.
- 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: DeletedThis 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 August 2020. |
| File | SHA1 Hash | Size |
|---|---|---|
 Axum Language Spec.docx | ff44464c428ddac141b93074e81e10799236083e | 82 KB |
 Axum Language Spec.pdf | 260197bbcc7b476710d50c98d9a299746ccbb878 | 827 KB |
| Axum Programmers Guide.docx | 38d0ea541a8dd2b2728dfb2185315145f5c128be | 114 KB |
| Axum Programmers Guide.pdf | 7da31621c4e7e26fc4352929e6e8ef7dd8d95684 | 1.01 MB |
 AxumLite.zip | 73b7a2fd8c992d8e129ab0d50181ec2b2b350cb6 | 1.54 MB |
 Axum_VS_2008.msi | 7ed97858f3ef381f802c5fb7514d75e5ce4999c6 | 3.78 MB |
| Axum_VS_2010.msi | af230da2b72429ea12b6a617eac31358f780208c | 4.89 MB |
System Requirements
Operating Systems: Windows 2000, Windows 7, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, Windows XP
- 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
Installation Instructions
- 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.