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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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]