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Getting code coverage for a child process?
In this blog post, I’m going to explain how to collect code coverage for a process that is launched by another process. We’ll be using […]
Updated error codes for all Validator tools
We’ve just updated our documentation for all our Validator tools to include an up-to-date list of Exit return codes. You may find these useful if […]
How to output to stdout from an MFC program
If you’ve ever developed an MFC program with a graphical user interface and then later thought that it would be really nice to also provide […]
More Effective Line Timing with C++ Performance Validator
C++ Performance Validator has always had the ability to provide timing information for each line executed. However it has always been a bit clumsy to […]
The Software Updates Menu
We introduced the Software Updates menu in 2012. This coincided with the introduction of automatic software updates. Various bug fixes have been applied to the […]
The Startup Wizard
We’ve just added a new Startup Wizard to all our C++ tools. The purpose of the startup wizard is to unify the various different dialogs […]
Working with Dev C++
We’ve had a few people asking how to configure C++ Memory Validator to work with programs built using Dev C++. Dev C++ is an IDE […]
The correct way to determine if a file is a directory.
After writing for Microsoft’s Windows platform for 20 years, I thought I knew all I could know about GetFileAttributes() until I found a rather odd […]
How to make your MFC (or non MFC) program support high DPI monitors. The easy way.
A few years ago Microsoft introduced support for very high resolution monitors. Such monitors might have nearly 4000 pixels horizontally and over 2000 pixels vertically. […]
We’ve been quiet for a while, sorry about that.
Hi, It’s been a while since we posted anything on the blog. If you weren’t a customer, regularly receiving our software update emails you might […]