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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 […]

Blog Communication
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 do I build all configurations of a project from the command line?

The problem I needed an easy way to automate the building of a Visual Studio project from the command line. It needed to work regardless […]

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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, […]

Debugging
September 14, 2023
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How to submit bug reports

Bugs are an unfortunate part of being a software developer. Sooner or later you’re going to bump into one and need to ask the vendor […]

Debugging
September 14, 2023
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How we provide customer support

In this article I’m going to explain how we provide customer support. Free Customer support is free. There is no charge for customer support. Customer […]

Debugging
September 14, 2023
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How to create minidumps using Visual Studio, WinDbg and Exception Tracer

Minidumps can be really useful for creating a self-contained record of a crash for analysis later, either by your own software team, by a consultant, […]

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