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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. […]
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 […]
An Easier Way To View Thread Wait Chains
Since Windows Vista the Windows operating system has included functionality to iterate across the waiting objects that form a chain between threads. I’m waiting for […]
Stdout redirection and capture
We were recently asked if Memory Validator could handle monitoring a program that took it’s input from a file and wrote its’ output to a […]
Thread naming
Multi-threading is becoming quite common these days. It’s a useful way to provide a responsive user interface while performing work at the same time. Our […]
How to detect GDI handle leaks
Working with GDI in Windows, whether you’re using Win32 calls or MFC, you’re concerned with pens, brushes, fonts, bitmaps and regions for drawing. You may […]
Detecting memory leaks in Visual Test unit tests
Introduction We recently had a request asking if Memory Validator could detect memory leaks in unit tests managed by Microsoft’s Visual Test and Visual Test […]
Support for Menus in Visual Studio 2017, 2015, 2013, 2012, 2010
Visual Studio menu support We’ve just added support for integrating tool menus into Visual Studio. This integration supports most of our tools. The menu only […]
Cleaning up Visual Studio
Why would you ever need a tool to clean up Visual Studio? Doesn’t Visual Studio have a built in “clean” mode that cleans your build […]