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Why does the SVL Admin Service inject into processes?
Why does the SVL Admin Service inject into processes? We were recently asked this question by a customer because their security team was concerned that […]
Potential misleading digitial signature warning with automatic updates
If you’ve installed any of our commercial tools (not evaluation versions) before January 26 2024, then enabled automatic updates and tried to update your software […]
How to build all configurations of a Visual Studio project from the command line?
Automating the building of a Visual Studio project can save significant time and reduce errors, especially when dealing with large projects or frequent updates. One […]
Loading Validator into a process
Everything written here applies to all Validators: Bug, Coverage, Memory, Performance and Thread. There are many ways to start collecting data with a Validator: Launch, […]
How to submit bug reports
Bugs are an unfortunate part of being a software developer. Sooner or later you’re going to bump into one and need to ask the vendor […]
How we provide customer support
In this article I’m going to explain how we provide customer support. Free Customer support is free. There is no charge for customer support. Customer […]
How to create minidumps using Visual Studio, WinDbg and Exception Tracer
Minidumps can be really useful for creating a self-contained record of a crash for analysis later, either by your own software team, by a consultant, […]
How to collect crash callstacks
When collecting data to submit for a bug report, collecting a callstack and supporting data is a common task. In this article I’m going to […]
Delayed memory deallocation can look like memory leaks
We recently had a bug in one of our tools that passed all memory leak tests (it didn’t leak memory) but in real-life use with […]
How to Install Intel One Mono fonts on Windows
Recently Intel introduced the One Mono font, which is intended to reduce eye strain and to be superior for use by people with vision difficulties. […]