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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]