Articles by Jim Crafton (Articles: 20, Technical Blogs: 5)

Articles: 20, Technical Blogs: 5

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	Summer 2004 NYC CPian Get Together 31 May 2004 Updated: 3 Jun 2004 Rating: 3.75/5 Votes: 5 Popularity: 2.62 Licence: Not specified Views: 100,860 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An article on a NYC get together
Desktop Programming
MFC	Writing a Scribble application using the Visual Component Framework 18 Mar 2001 Updated: 16 Apr 2001 Rating: 2.60/5 Votes: 10 Popularity: 2.60 Licence: Not specified Views: 76,916 Bookmarked: 19 Downloaded: 724 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An article on using the VCF and implementing a Scribble style application with it
	XMake - A Console build system based on XML 5 Jun 2002 Updated: 5 Jun 2002 Rating: 3.00/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 2.86 Licence: Not specified Views: 108,807 Bookmarked: 23 Downloaded: 991 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An article describing a new build tool for C/C++ projects
	Visual Component Framework 25 Oct 2000 Updated: 25 Oct 2000 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 18 Popularity: 5.57 Licence: BSD Views: 151,425 Bookmarked: 27 Downloaded: 1,460 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An Article describing working with the Visual Component Framework
	Hello World with the VCF 3 Jun 2002 Updated: 4 Jun 2002 Rating: 2.56/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 2.44 Licence: Not specified Views: 61,573 Bookmarked: 12 Downloaded: 279 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A Hello World example to introduce the Visual Component Framework.
	Hello World with the VCF part 2 3 Jun 2002 Updated: 4 Jun 2002 Rating: 2.14/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 1.67 Licence: Not specified Views: 45,701 Bookmarked: 11 Downloaded: 201 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A Hello World example to introduce the Visual Component Framework, part 2.
	Hello World with the VCF part 3 3 Jun 2002 Updated: 4 Jun 2002 Rating: 2.60/5 Votes: 9 Popularity: 2.48 Licence: Not specified Views: 45,641 Bookmarked: 9 Downloaded: 194 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A Hello World example to introduce the Visual Component Framework, part 3.
	Using the C++ RTTI/Reflection APIs in the VCF 3 Jun 2002 Updated: 4 Jun 2002 Rating: 2.53/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 2.64 Licence: Not specified Views: 84,962 Bookmarked: 26 Downloaded: 419 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A tutorial and brief explanation of RTTI in the VCF.
	Locale support in the Visual Component Framework 12 Apr 2006 Updated: 12 Apr 2006 Rating: 4.84/5 Votes: 13 Popularity: 4.84 Licence: Not specified Views: 50,064 Bookmarked: 16 Downloaded: 498 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An article on working with and adding multi-lingual and locale support to an application using the VCF.
	Using Resources in the VCF 19 Apr 2006 Updated: 19 Apr 2006 Rating: 4.25/5 Votes: 6 Popularity: 3.31 Licence: Not specified Views: 38,762 Bookmarked: 12 Downloaded: 444 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An article on adding and using resources to your application using the VCF.
	Action Support in the VCF 25 Apr 2006 Updated: 5 May 2006 Rating: 3.63/5 Votes: 12 Popularity: 3.91 Licence: Not specified Views: 38,152 Bookmarked: 12 Downloaded: 233 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An article on adding action support to your VCF application.
	Help Integration With The VCF 8 May 2006 Updated: 8 May 2006 Rating: 3.59/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 3.74 Licence: Not specified Views: 32,050 Bookmarked: 16 Downloaded: 225 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An article on working with, creating, and integrating help using the Visual Component Framework.
	Creating an Add-in to host a GUI inside the Developer Studio IDE 5 Jun 2002 Updated: 5 Jun 2002 Rating: 2.81/5 Votes: 8 Popularity: 2.54 Licence: Not specified Views: 91,152 Bookmarked: 34 Downloaded: 804 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An article on hosting your own custom window inside of Microsoft Developer Studio
Win32	Using Delegates in the Visual Component Framework 17 Jun 2008 Updated: 17 Jun 2008 Rating: 3.65/5 Votes: 11 Popularity: 3.80 Licence: BSD Views: 25,911 Bookmarked: 12 Downloaded: 241 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An article describing how to use delegates in the VCF.
	MVC in the Visual Component Framework 17 Jun 2008 Updated: 17 Jun 2008 Rating: 3.88/5 Votes: 20 Popularity: 5.05 Licence: BSD Views: 50,504 Bookmarked: 28 Downloaded: 387 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. An introduction to the Model-View-Controller Pattern in the Visual Component Framework.
	MVC in the Visual Component Framework, Part II 20 Jun 2008 Updated: 20 Jun 2008 Rating: 3.67/5 Votes: 14 Popularity: 4.20 Licence: BSD Views: 30,210 Bookmarked: 19 Downloaded: 473 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Part 2 of 4 that explores the Model-View-Controller Pattern in the Visual Component Framework
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Windows	Getting started with a SourceForge project 29 Jun 2003 Updated: 29 Jun 2003 Rating: 4.87/5 Votes: 59 Popularity: 8.31 Licence: Not specified Views: 115,299 Bookmarked: 88 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A brief overview of how to use some of the tools and services that come into play with a SourceForge OSS project
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C++	Visual Form File Format 8 Apr 2009 Updated: 8 Apr 2009 Rating: 3.86/5 Votes: 3 Popularity: 1.84 Licence: BSD Views: 13,871 Bookmarked: 6 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. The format for a Visual Form File (VFF) in Backus-Naur format
	Trapping Bugs with BlackBox 1 Aug 2002 Updated: 25 May 2003 Rating: 3.72/5 Votes: 27 Popularity: 5.32 Licence: BSD Views: 263,822 Bookmarked: 130 Downloaded: 2,063 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. A brief article explaining how to use BlackBox in your programs to trap errors
	Documention with DocBook on Win32 2 Jul 2003 Updated: 3 Oct 2003 Rating: 4.92/5 Votes: 46 Popularity: 7.83 Licence: Not specified Views: 336,304 Bookmarked: 121 Downloaded: 2,856 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Writing and producing documentation (HTML Help) with DocBook

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Desktop Programming
MFC	Working with Delegates in Visual Form Files [Technical Blog] 8 Apr 2009 Updated: 8 Apr 2009 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: BSD Views: 12,070 Bookmarked: 5 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. How to work with delegates in Visual Form Files.
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C#	Models, Views, and Items - A Saga for the Ages [Technical Blog] 31 Oct 2011 Updated: 31 Oct 2011 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: BSD Views: 6,110 Bookmarked: 1 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Models, Views, and Items - A different approach.
C++	ThreadPools in the VCF [Technical Blog] 31 Oct 2011 Updated: 31 Oct 2011 Rating: 5.00/5 Votes: 1 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: BSD Views: 5,611 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Threadpooling in VCF
	Threaded Functions [Technical Blog] 5 Nov 2011 Updated: 5 Nov 2011 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: BSD Views: 5,900 Bookmarked: 4 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. Here's an interesting thought experiment for functions that get executed in a separate thread.
	Busy, Busy, Busy [Technical Blog] 31 Oct 2011 Updated: 31 Oct 2011 Rating: 0.00/5 Votes: 0 Popularity: 0.00 Licence: BSD Views: 5,961 Bookmarked: 0 Downloaded: 0 Please Sign up or sign in to vote. What's the latest scoop in VCF land?

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Jim Crafton

Software Developer (Senior)

United States

Currently working on the Visual Component Framework, a really cool C++ framework. Currently the VCF has millions upon millions upon billions of Users. If I make anymore money from it I'll have to buy my own country.