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AQTime Is Shutting Down. Here’s What Replaces It.
SmartBear has confirmed that AQTime will reach end of life in June/July 2026. If you’re using AQTime for memory analysis, code coverage, or performance profiling, […]
Parasoft Insure++ Is Being Discontinued. Here’s What Replaces It.
Parasoft has announced that Insure++ is being discontinued in June/July 2026. If you have been using Insure++ for C/C++ memory debugging on Windows, you need […]
We added a thread to keep the GUI responsive. Then we broke it.
Memory Validator is a multi-threaded application. The main thread runs the user interface. If the main thread blocks, the UI becomes unresponsive — and if […]
Crash Analysis Tools: Complete Guide for 2026
Your application crashed in production, and all you have is a dump file and a stack trace full of hexadecimal addresses. Without the right tools, […]
Stop using booleans, they’re hurting your code
At Software Verify we’ve started to phase out the use of booleans in our code. The use of booleans hinders readability and maintainability of the […]
Secure Admin Service
This article explains the recent changes to the SVL Admin Service and to the SVL Build Service to make our tools and our services much […]
Setting up ISAPI (and ASP.Net) on IIS 10
Introduction OK so it’s 2020 and how many people are developing ISAPI extensions? More than you might imagine. Yeah, Ruby on Rails and Rust are […]
Failing email
Last week, from Thursday 13th February to the evening of Sunday 16th February our email servers were temporarily unreachable. This was caused by a failure […]
How to read embedded data from a resource
In the previous article, I showed you how to embed data into a custom resource in your application. In this article, I’m going to show […]
Debugging a crash with single stepping
If you’ve ever used a debugger you’re probably familiar with the concept of single stepping through code – executing one instruction at a time until […]