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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 […]
What’s new with Memory Validator
There are many changes coming to Memory Validator. I’m going to describe the various changes and the reasons behind them. Name Change The first one […]
Memory leak in CPngImage
A memory leak in a surprising place We’ve recently been doing some work switching our resources in our programs from BMP (using CBitmap) to PNG […]
Detecting memory leaks in ISAPI extensions
Three weeks ago I wrote about how to setup IIS for use with ISAPI extensions. Today I’m going to use Memory Validator to show you […]
Monitoring a service with the NT Service API
Debugging services is a pain. There is a lot that can go wrong and very little you can do to find out what went wrong. […]
How to detect GDI handle leaks
Working with GDI in Windows, whether you’re using Win32 calls or MFC, you’re concerned with pens, brushes, fonts, bitmaps and regions for drawing. You may […]
Detecting memory leaks in Visual Test unit tests
Introduction We recently had a request asking if Memory Validator could detect memory leaks in unit tests managed by Microsoft’s Visual Test and Visual Test […]
Fix for FALSE positive memory leak report VS 2015 Update 1
We’ve just released a V6.54 of C++ Memory Validator. This contains a bug fix for FALSE positive memory leak reports when working with Release mode […]
Marmalade game SDK support
We’ve recently added support for the Marmalade game SDK to Memory Validator. This article will show you how to: Configure a Marmalade project for use […]
How to speed up Memory Validator by changing DbgHelp version
Recently we’ve had a few customers contact to tell us they have experienced a dramatic reduction in speed when using Memory Validator. Buffered File Access […]