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The Software Updates Menu
We introduced the Software Updates menu in 2012. This coincided with the introduction of automatic software updates. Various bug fixes have been applied to the […]
The Startup Wizard
We’ve just added a new Startup Wizard to all our C++ tools. The purpose of the startup wizard is to unify the various different dialogs […]
Working with Dev C++
We’ve had a few people asking how to configure C++ Memory Validator to work with programs built using Dev C++. Dev C++ is an IDE […]
The correct way to determine if a file is a directory.
After writing for Microsoft’s Windows platform for 20 years, I thought I knew all I could know about GetFileAttributes() until I found a rather odd […]
How to make your MFC (or non MFC) program support high DPI monitors. The easy way.
A few years ago Microsoft introduced support for very high resolution monitors. Such monitors might have nearly 4000 pixels horizontally and over 2000 pixels vertically. […]
We’ve been quiet for a while, sorry about that.
Hi, It’s been a while since we posted anything on the blog. If you weren’t a customer, regularly receiving our software update emails you might […]
Fix for FALSE positive memory leak report VS 2015 Update 1
We’ve just released a V6.54 of C++ Memory Validator. This contains a bug fix for FALSE positive memory leak reports when working with Release mode […]
New graphics in Performance Validator
We’ve just introduced some new visualisations of performance data into C++ Performance Validator and .Net Performance Validator. The new visualisations make it much easier to […]
Marmalade game SDK support
We’ve recently added support for the Marmalade game SDK to Memory Validator. This article will show you how to: Configure a Marmalade project for use […]
Speeding up merging with Coverage Validator
Coverage Validator has an option to automatically merge the coverage results of the current session with a central session. This allows you to get an […]