Microsoft/CppRestSDK Casablanca, Visual Studio 2017

Question

The Goal

Build a simple cpprestsdk example in Visual Studio.

What I've done so far

Following the guidelines on the wiki, I'm able to build a working example by cloning the git repository. But, I want to be able to link, include and setup the project myself and kind of figure out things from there.

Using vcpkg to download and compile all the external dependencies and, following the general workflow of Visual Studio, adding the external libraries, including the headers and copying the DLLs, I'm able to compile and, almost run the executable.

Error no:1

While trying to compile this getting started example

pplx::task<void> requestTask = fstream::open_ostream(U("results.html")).
    then([=](ostream outFile) {...}

Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State Error (active) E0312 no suitable user-defined conversion from Concurrency::task< Concurrency::details ::_BadContinuationParamType >" to "Concurrency::task< void >"

Error no:2

Currently I'm unable to get this far, but I got an alignment error from xmemory0.h, while trying to make a simple get request.

What I'm asking for

After getting the alignment error, I assumed it had something to do with Unicode. How would I go about setting up Unicode in Visual Studio?

After trying to understand what's going on with libraries and dll's. How would I go about setting my projects up (file structure, project settings etc.) in Visual Studio?

Is there any article I can read about stepping up my VC++ game?

Thanks, apologies for my messy question...

Answer 1

For setting up Unicode: Project>Properties>General>Project Defaults>Character Set. enter image description here though after everything resolves, there are build errors as still posted in this thread

Answer 2

For Error no:1, you can make the following change:

return concurrency::task<size_t>(response.body().read_to_end(fileStream->streambuf()));

//return response.body().read_to_end(fileStream->streambuf());