If you’re developing in C# or Visual Basic, you can take advantage of the language new features in Visual Studio 2013 and .NET 4.5.1 for asynchronous programming. Using the new async and await keywords, you can write asynchronous code that looks a lot like the synchronous version. The C++ support in Visual Studio 2013 includes the full C++ 11 standard library as well as new language features: stateless lambdas, SCARY iterators, range-based for loops, and scoped enumerations support. Visual C++ 11 also adds seamless access to Windows Runtime components through C++/CX as well as C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism (C++ AMP), which enables hardware acceleration for the execution of your data-parallel C++ code. If you’re using F#, you’ll enjoy improvements for information-rich programming, which enable you to program directly against data services, and are made possible by F# type providers and LINQ queries.