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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.

Development productivity
March 19, 2018
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Cleaning up Visual Studio

Why would you ever need a tool to clean up Visual Studio? Doesn’t Visual Studio have a built in “clean” mode that cleans your build […]

Development productivity
March 12, 2018
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Stephen Kellett

Improving how we build projects and solutions

The problem with Solutions If you’re working with just one solution and the projects it contains Microsoft Visual Studio is a good tool for managing […]

Development productivity
March 5, 2018
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Stephen Kellett

Fixing Visual Studio project problems

The productivity sink Visual Studio is a very productive development environment. However, you can get Visual Studio into a state (for C++ and C developers, […]

Development user experience
February 15, 2018
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Stephen Kellett

Changes to the first run wizard

When you run one of our tools for the first time it displays the first run wizard. The first run wizard takes you through the […]

Development
February 6, 2018
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Stephen Kellett

New tools and old tools

Last week we released a versions of our tools that no longer install DLLs in the Windows system32 directory. We documented these changes in an […]

Development Security
February 3, 2018
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Stephen Kellett

Changing how we install our software

With the next release of our software (later today) we are changing how we install our software. The installers stay the same, the software (as […]

Development
February 3, 2018
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Stephen Kellett

Changes to the NT Service API

All of our Validator tools have an NT Service API. We’ve just made some changes to the NT Service API. This article documents those changes […]

Security
December 19, 2017
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Stephen Kellett

List of UK stock trading websites that are not secure by default

This is one of several posts of the topic of security of websites. Inspired by my initial post on the security of UK banks. The […]

Security
December 18, 2017
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List of UK Insurance companies that are not secure by default

This is one of several posts of the topic of security of websites. Inspired by my initial post on the security of UK banks. The […]

Security
December 18, 2017
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List of UK pension funds that are not secure by default

This is one of several posts of the topic of security of websites. Inspired by my initial post on the security of UK banks. The […]

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