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How do I build all configurations of a project from the command line?
The problem I needed an easy way to automate the building of a Visual Studio project from the command line. It needed to work regardless […]
Enabling and disabling Powershell script execution
If you’ve ever tried to run a script from Powershell you’ve probably seen this error message. Enabling script execution To enable script execution in Powershell […]
How do I build all projects in a solution from the command line?
The problem I needed an easy way to automate the building of a Visual Studio solution from the command line. I have a process that […]
Manually installing a licence without reinstalling the software
In this article, we’re going to discuss how to manually install a licence without reinstalling the software. Why would I want to do this? The […]
Common IIS Server Errors
When working with IIS it’s not uncommon to run into problems with pages not being served correctly. When this happens you’re shown an error page […]
Setting directory permissions for user group IIS_IUSRS
If you’re working with IIS there is a high likelihood that at some point you’ll want to write data to a log file and/or enable […]
Leaking memory with VirtualAlloc
The Win32 function VirtualAlloc() can be used to allocate new blocks of committed memory. When this happens a new block that is large enough to […]
Slicing and dicing by memory allocator
We’ve just released Memory Validator 9.63. This release introduces improvements for viewing trending statistics by allocator type. The Job To Be Done behind these changes […]
Memory Fragmentation – mvFragmentation
Many software engineers and their managers struggle to understand what memory fragmentation is and the effects memory fragmentation can have on the software they produce. […]
Perl Profiling API – implementation
To enable us to create our Perl code coverage, Perl flow tracing and Perl profiling tools we have modified the Perl runtime to include a […]