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February 27, 2026
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Stop using booleans, they’re hurting your code

At Software Verify we’ve started to phase out the use of booleans in our code. The use of booleans hinders readability and maintainability of the […]

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February 19, 2026
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Secure Admin Service

This article explains the recent changes to the SVL Admin Service and to the SVL Build Service to make our tools and our services much […]

Hints and tips
May 15, 2025
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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 […]

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February 18, 2025
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Failing email

Last week, from Thursday 13th February to the evening of Sunday 16th February our email servers were temporarily unreachable. This was caused by a failure […]

Hints and tips
January 22, 2025
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How to read embedded data from a resource

In the previous article, I showed you how to embed data into a custom resource in your application. In this article, I’m going to show […]

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Debugging a crash with single stepping

If you’ve ever used a debugger you’re probably familiar with the concept of single stepping through code – executing one instruction at a time until […]

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June 12, 2024
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Why does the SVL Admin Service inject into processes?

Why does the SVL Admin Service inject into processes? We were recently asked this question by a customer because their security team was concerned that […]

Communication Security
February 26, 2024
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Potential misleading digitial signature warning with automatic updates

If you’ve installed any of our commercial tools (not evaluation versions) before January 26 2024, then enabled automatic updates and tried to update your software […]

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November 24, 2023
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How to build all configurations of a Visual Studio project from the command line?

Automating the building of a Visual Studio project can save significant time and reduce errors, especially when dealing with large projects or frequent updates. One […]

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Loading Validator into a process

Everything written here applies to all Validators: Bug, Coverage, Memory, Performance and Thread. There are many ways to start collecting data with a Validator: Launch, […]

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