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This blog is where we help you improve your software, teach you how to use our tools to solve problems, software tool use cases, and improvements to our software tools.
What will Visual Studio 2035 be able to do?
Will Visual Studio 2035 exist? Will we design and write software the same way in the future? Read Bruce Eckel’s thought provoking article about “Programming […]
What is the difference between a page and a paragraph?
In the real world, we all know that pages contain paragraphs and that paragraphs are full of sentences created from words. In the world of […]
Delete memory 5 times faster
The conventional way Memory management in C and C++ is typically done using either the malloc/realloc/free C runtime functions or the C++ operators new and […]
Speed up your MFC program without a profiler!
I’m going to explain how to potentially improve the performance of MFC programs using CMap<> and related containers (CMapStringToPtr, etc) by a substantial amount. We […]
Code signing and user hinting
We have just released new versions of our software tools that are code signed. This change will please those of you that are using more […]
Support for MinGW and QtCreator
Everyone uses Visual Studio to write C and C++ software don’t they? Yes! you all chorus. Apart from some guys at the back who like […]
Got a crash with a strange pointer value?
Ever had a crash with a pointer value of 0xcdcdcdcd or 0xdddddddd or 0xfeeefeee? You have? Sooner or later when you work with C or […]
What do programmers want for Christmas?
T-shirts appears to be the answer. Even better if they come with a natty logo or slogan. Andy Brice has come up with a wonderful […]
Robot footballers in China
A while ago a German University Robot Football team asked us if we could help them with their software. We provided Performance Validator to them […]
Tab controls and tree/grid controls – why change them?
In this post I’m going to describe some of the changes we’ve been making to the user interface of our software tools and also why […]