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November 2010
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How to read bug-reports
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– Well, recently I’ve noticed that there are many people, who have certain difficulties with reading and/or understanding bug-reports. There are many related questions both on support and forums. While it is quite surprising for me, it looks like there is a problem, which need to be solved. Ok, let’s ...
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Catching memory leaks
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– Before return to discussion of other ways to catch "bad" pointers - I wanted to talk about memory leaks and tools for its diagnostics. As we'll see later, this topic is very close related to our previous talk. While any error in your application is always bad, there are types of errors, which can ...
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Access Violation in details
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– Exception of class EAccessViolation is most common error in Delphi applications. Today I want to discuss it, its reasons and how to deal with it. This article is mostly for beginners, so it can contain not very accurate phrases. What is an Access Violation Every computer program uses memory for ...
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SDN sessions from EurekaLab s.a.s.
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– There was a SDN event recently - 18th May 2010. Fabio Dell'Aria took two sessions on this event: "How to find the exception source line of a just delivered software" and "How to prevent source code bugs and speed-up the testing phase".I had prepared two presentations for these sessions in OpenOffice ...
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Why should you always use FreeAndNil instead of Free
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– Today I want to discuss the idea of using FreeAndNil routine instead of Obj.Free. Well, when someone talks about object creation and destruction, he usually imagine something like this: ... var SomeObj: TSomeClass; ... SomeObj := TSomeClass.Create; try ... finally SomeObj.Free; ...
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Optimal project settings
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– Today I want to discuss various project's options, related to debugging. What will we talk about? Ok, let's see, what options do I mean: open your project's options and take a look at "Compiling" and "Linking" pages (those pages are called "Compiler" and "Linker" in old Delphi versions): ...
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EurekaLog for Shareware developers
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– Hi. Today I want to browse EurekaLog's features that is related to shareware developers. Checking file for corruptions The first thing is, of course, checking the file for corruptions. You can enable this feature in "Build Options" section: The first thing that should catch your attention here ...
July 2010
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EurekaLog 6.0.24 is out
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– We are pleased to announce the availability of the new 6.0.24 version.
June 2010
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How to debug application’s hang?
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– Today’s article will cover different approaches to debugging of application’s hangs. It contains six parts: preparations, debuggin with Delphi, debuggin with EurekaLog, debuggin with Process Explorer, debuggin with Threads Snapshot and a practical example.
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SDN sessions from EurekaLab s.a.s.
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– Materials from "How to find the exception source line of a just delivered software" and "How to prevent source code bugs and speed-up the testing phase" sessions from SDN Event on 18th May 2010.
May 2010
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New Exception class in Delphi 2009 and above
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– Exception class from SysUtils unit wasn't changed since Delphi 2. It got new properties in Delphi 2009. So, I decided to give an overview of new capabilities of Exception class.
March 2010
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Memory problems in Delphi apps – final article
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– I've published several articles already, which covers different aspects of memory issues. I'm going to give a short review of these articles first and then finish this series with current article. I've only mentioned most scary problems in the previous articles, dealing with simple cases first and ...
February 2010
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Catching memory leaks, redux
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– I tried to discuss things, that I've missed last time.
December 2009
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That annoying “Source file not found” dialog
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– If you don’t have Enterprise edition of EurekaLog (the one, that comes with sources) – sometimes you may encounter “Source file not found” dialog. This article explains what it is and what you can do with it.
November 2009
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Tips & Tricks in EurekaLog, part 1
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– Many our customers often ask trivial questions about how to do different things with EurekaLog. Well, we have a bit of documentation (chm-file and online one), which describes some public internals, which you can use to customize default behavior. Apparently, this is “dictionary”-like style ...
