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Development
June 12, 2020
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Changes to how we display data

We’ve changed the display of data on all of our tree controls that are used to display callstacks and call trees. The old method of […]

Memory
June 1, 2020
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Stephen Kellett

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 […]

Memory
April 21, 2020
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Stephen Kellett

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 […]

Hints and tips
April 3, 2020
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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 […]

staff
March 6, 2020
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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 […]

Thread
March 6, 2020
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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 […]

Development
March 6, 2020
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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 […]

Development productivity
March 6, 2020
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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 […]

Development
February 12, 2020
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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. […]

Coverage Memory Profiler Thread
February 11, 2020
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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. […]

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