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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.

Profiler user experience
December 18, 2015
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New graphics in Performance Validator

We’ve just introduced some new visualisations of performance data into C++ Performance Validator and .Net Performance Validator. The new visualisations make it much easier to […]

Development Memory
December 16, 2015
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Stephen Kellett

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 […]

Coverage productivity
December 16, 2015
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Speeding up merging with Coverage Validator

Coverage Validator has an option to automatically merge the coverage results of the current session with a central session. This allows you to get an […]

Development Memory
September 6, 2015
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Stephen Kellett

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 […]

Development
July 23, 2015
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Stephen Kellett

Changes to injection behaviour

We’ve just changed how we launch executables and attach to them at launch time. We’ve also changed how we inject into running executables. This blog […]

Development
January 4, 2015
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Stephen Kellett

Changes to how we build our software

Starting with our first software release of 2015, we will start shipping software that uses the Visual Studio 2010 C runtime and MFC libraries. The […]

productivity
December 30, 2014
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Stephen Kellett

How to be more productive

A few weeks ago @BobWalsh asked on twitter how to be more productive. I dashed off a simple reply about turning various things off. I […]

conference
October 6, 2014
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Stephen Kellett

Brianna Wu, Nine ways to start helping and stop hurting women in tech

Business of Software Conference 2014 In September I travelled to Boston, MA in the USA for the 2014 Business of Software Conference. As conferences go […]

Development
August 12, 2014
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Stephen Kellett

Visual Studio 2014 CTP

A few months ago Microsoft released the Community Technology Preview of Visual Studio 2014, also known as Visual Studio 2014 CTP. Installation Because this is […]

Development
August 12, 2014
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Support for Visual Studio 2014 CTP

Microsoft recently released the Community Technology Preview version of Visual Studio 2014, also known as Visual Studio 2014 CTP. Because it’s a technology preview Microsoft […]

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