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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.

Blog
November 18, 2022
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Stephen Kellett

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 […]

Blog Debugging
September 5, 2022
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Stephen Kellett

Memory Fragmentation – mvFragmentation

Many software engineers and their managers struggle to understand what memory fragmentation is and the effects memory fragmentation can have on the software they produce. […]

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Stephen Kellett

The Command Line Builder

Last week we introduced the command line builder to all our Validator tools.

Debugging Error Handling
February 28, 2022
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Stephen Kellett

Using and Debugging Environment Variables

Environment variables can be used to configure the various Validator tools that we provide.

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Stephen Kellett

Exceptions Codes you’ve never heard of

If you write software for any length of time you’ll have seen your software fail in a variety of ways.

Error Handling
January 11, 2022
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Stephen Kellett

Fail Fast Codes

When Windows encounters an error condition that might compromise the security of the computer, the program that encounters that condition is terminated as fast as possible.

Security
December 14, 2021
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Stephen Kellett

log4j status

We’ve had a few inquiries from worried customers as to whether we use log4j and what our mitigation plan is if we do.

Coverage
November 26, 2021
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Stephen Kellett

Viewing source code that’s in the “wrong place”.

You’ve been given a program to debug. You’ve got the EXE and DLLs, and you’ve got the PDB files, so you can tell when the […]

Coverage
October 29, 2021
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Code coverage with NUnit and Coverage Validator

In this blog post, I’m going to give you an example of running .Net unit tests with NUnit and Coverage Validator. It’s the same process […]

Coverage Tutorial
October 26, 2021
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Code coverage with VS Test and Coverage Validator

In this blog post, I’m going to give you an example of running .Net Core unit tests with VS Test (formerly MS Test) and Coverage […]

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