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This blog is where we help you improve your software, teach you how to use our tools to solve problems, software tool use cases, and improvements to our software tools.
Thread monitoring made easy
Tools like Thread Validator are great for delving into the details of why a thread deadlock has occurred. You get all the gory details, DLL, […]
Thread Lock Checker now available
We’ve just released Thread Lock Checker, a lock-checking tool that will let you know when you’ve used CSingleLock incorrectly. Took a bit longer than we […]
Improving how you use CSingleLock
This posting covers a brief background: Win32 critical sections. How CCriticalSection and CSingleLock can be used instead of Win32 critical sections. An improved way to […]
What is the difference between a page and a paragraph?
In the real world, we all know that pages contain paragraphs and that paragraphs are full of sentences created from words. In the world of […]
Delete memory 5 times faster
The conventional way Memory management in C and C++ is typically done using either the malloc/realloc/free C runtime functions or the C++ operators new and […]
Speed up your MFC program without a profiler!
I’m going to explain how to potentially improve the performance of MFC programs using CMap<> and related containers (CMapStringToPtr, etc) by a substantial amount. We […]
Code signing and user hinting
We have just released new versions of our software tools that are code signed. This change will please those of you that are using more […]
Support for MinGW and QtCreator
Everyone uses Visual Studio to write C and C++ software don’t they? Yes! you all chorus. Apart from some guys at the back who like […]
Got a crash with a strange pointer value?
Ever had a crash with a pointer value of 0xcdcdcdcd or 0xdddddddd or 0xfeeefeee? You have? Sooner or later when you work with C or […]
What do programmers want for Christmas?
T-shirts appears to be the answer. Even better if they come with a natty logo or slogan. Andy Brice has come up with a wonderful […]