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Cleaning up Visual Studio
Why would you ever need a tool to clean up Visual Studio? Doesn’t Visual Studio have a built in “clean” mode that cleans your build […]
Improving how we build projects and solutions
The problem with Solutions If you’re working with just one solution and the projects it contains Microsoft Visual Studio is a good tool for managing […]
Fixing Visual Studio project problems
The productivity sink Visual Studio is a very productive development environment. However, you can get Visual Studio into a state (for C++ and C developers, […]
Changes to the first run wizard
When you run one of our tools for the first time it displays the first run wizard. The first run wizard takes you through the […]
New tools and old tools
Last week we released a versions of our tools that no longer install DLLs in the Windows system32 directory. We documented these changes in an […]
Changing how we install our software
With the next release of our software (later today) we are changing how we install our software. The installers stay the same, the software (as […]
Changes to the NT Service API
All of our Validator tools have an NT Service API. We’ve just made some changes to the NT Service API. This article documents those changes […]
Updated error codes for all Validator tools
We’ve just updated our documentation for all our Validator tools to include an up-to-date list of Exit return codes. You may find these useful if […]
Working with Dev C++
We’ve had a few people asking how to configure C++ Memory Validator to work with programs built using Dev C++. Dev C++ is an IDE […]
The correct way to determine if a file is a directory.
After writing for Microsoft’s Windows platform for 20 years, I thought I knew all I could know about GetFileAttributes() until I found a rather odd […]