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Hints and tips
September 13, 2023
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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. […]

Debugging
September 1, 2023
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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. […]

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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 […]

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August 15, 2023
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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 […]

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August 11, 2023
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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 […]

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July 25, 2023
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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 […]

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May 18, 2023
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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 […]

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April 12, 2023
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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 […]

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December 19, 2022
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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 […]

Development Memory
November 30, 2022
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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 […]

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