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The nineteen types of memory leak
Memory leaks affect all computer programs, be they desktop applications, service applications or web services. For many trivial applications or applications with a very short […]
The Command Line Builder
Last week we introduced the command line builder to all our Validator tools.
Exceptions Codes you’ve never heard of
If you write software for any length of time you’ll have seen your software fail in a variety of ways.
Changes to how we display data
We’ve changed the display of data on all of our tree controls that are used to display callstacks and call trees. The old method of […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]