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Memory leak in CPngImage
A memory leak in a surprising place We’ve recently been doing some work switching our resources in our programs from BMP (using CBitmap) to PNG […]
Detecting memory leaks in ISAPI extensions
Three weeks ago I wrote about how to setup IIS for use with ISAPI extensions. Today I’m going to use Memory Validator to show you […]
Setting up ISAPI (and ASP.Net) on IIS 10
Introduction OK so it’s 2020 and how many people are developing ISAPI extensions? More than you might imagine. Yeah, Ruby on Rails and Rust are […]
The unintended consequence of not paying sick pay
Setting the scene I wrote this several years ago but it never became published. Reading it now it still seems to be valid. Even more […]
Detecting Abandoned Critical Sections
Multithreading is a powerful way to improve the processing throughput and responsiveness of your software. We use it to great effect at Software Verify. In […]
Turbo Debugger Symbols Viewer
If you’re using Delphi or 32 bit C++ Builder your compiler/linker produces symbols in TDS format. TDS means Turbo Debugger Symbols – it’s an old […]
An easier way to view crashes in the Windows Event Log
In a previous article I wrote about how to identify crashes in the Windows Event Log. You need to use the Windows Event Viewer, inspect […]
Identifying crashes with the Windows Event Log
It’s an unfortunate and inevitable fact that while developing software, sometimes your software will crash. This also happens, sometimes, hopefully very infrequently, in production code. […]
Monitoring a service with the NT Service API
Debugging services is a pain. There is a lot that can go wrong and very little you can do to find out what went wrong. […]
Large Scale Exception Tracing
We’ve just released another of our in-house tools – Exception Tracer. Debugging Events Exception Tracer started off life as an experiment and then through a […]