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Loading Validator into a process

Everything written here applies to all Validators: Bug, Coverage, Memory, Performance and Thread. There are many ways to start collecting data with a Validator: Launch, […]

Memory
September 13, 2023
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Delayed memory deallocation can look like memory leaks

We recently had a bug in one of our tools that passed all memory leak tests (it didn’t leak memory) but in real-life use with […]

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How do I monitor a process launched from batch files or Powershell scripts?

Batch files are often used to setup an environment prior to starting an executable. You can also do this with Powershell scripts. If you use […]

Development Memory
November 30, 2022
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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 […]

Memory
December 10, 2020
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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
June 1, 2020
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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 […]

Memory
April 21, 2020
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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 […]

Coverage Memory Profiler Thread
February 11, 2020
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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. […]

Memory
September 4, 2018
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Stephen Kellett

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 […]

Memory Test Setup
June 6, 2018
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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 […]

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