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How to find exception reports for our Validator tools
In an ideal world software would never crash. In the real world, software crashes. Hopefully infrequently. Our tools write an exception report when they crash. […]
How do I monitor a process launched from batch files or Powershell scripts?
Batch files are often used to setup an environment prior to starting an executable. You can also do this with Powershell scripts. If you use […]
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 […]
The nineteen types of memory leak
Memory leaks affect all computer programs, be they desktop applications, service applications or web services. For many trivial applications or applications with a very short […]
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 […]