Category Archives: Programming

EurekaLog exception reporting tool for .NET

Our friends at EurekaLab recently released a new .NET edition of their exception reporting tool EurekaLog. While EurekaLog is a popular and well-known tool with Delphi developers, .NET developers haven’t been able to benefit from its powerful exception and bug reporting capabilities until recently. Now that the new version of EurekaLog for .NET is [...]
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Aspect-oriented logging for .NET with PostSharp and SmartInspect

This article is part of a series about aspect-oriented logging with SmartInspect, our logging tool for .NET, Java and Delphi. Please see the first article of this series for a complete overview over the available posts. There are various AOP frameworks available for each of the three platforms SmartInspect supports, so why did we decide to [...]
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Working with Delphi’s new Exception.StackTrace

One feature I often miss when using Delphi is the support for proper exception stack traces at run-time. You know, those useful stack traces that show you exactly where an exception occurred, ideally with the method name and line number of where the exception was raised. Both .NET and Java have excellent stack trace support [...]
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SmartInspect presentation available for download

Ever since we started offering free SmartInspect license vouchers and flyers to user groups, we also wanted to make a quick SmartInspect presentation available to interested groups and customers. We’ve just built such an introductory presentation which is now available for download: Download SmartInspect in 15 Minutes (3.55 MB) The presentation is primarily intended for user [...]
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Choosing a Web Development Stack

We have been working on a new product in the past few months (besides improving our flagship product SmartInspect of course) and had to choose a web development stack for this project. The product will be an installable web application, meaning that customers can host the application themselves (in contrast to all those fancy hosted [...]
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The Future of the Delphi Compiler

Nick Hodges just published an interesting article about the future of the Delphi and C++ compiler. The article states that a preview version of the 64-bit compiler will be available in mid-2009 and the final version is expected to be available sometime mid-2010. Although this is quite a change in the roadmap, I think Nick [...]
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Using SmartInspect with madExcept

Inspired by our recent article about using EurekaLog together with SmartInspect, SmartInspect user Jeremy Brown ported our example to madExcept and kindly provided us with screenshots and sample code. The example project demonstrates how to attach an event handler to madExcept and add a SmartInspect log file to madExept’s crash report whenever an unhandled exception occurs: uses [...]
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Integrating SmartInspect with EurekaLog

“Integrating SmartInspect’s logging capabilities and EurekaLog’s exception reporting mechanism is a great way to improve the reliability of your Delphi applications. Used together, these two tools allow you to easily report and solve errors that your customers and users experience.” “The approach explained [in this article] is already being used by numerous customers and has turned [...]
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Google Chrome is out

The first beta version of Google Chrome just went online. I’m impressed by the clean user interface and by the speed of Google’s new browser. In case you haven’t heard about Google Chrome yet, read this clever comic that introduces Chrome’s innovative features. Oh and in case you wonder, the Google Chrome user agent string looks [...]
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New SmartInspect Customer Testimonial

We are lucky to get positive feedback about SmartInspect regularly, but once in a while there is an email or blog comment that really stands out. Kevin Powick of Trident Information Systems sent us such an email and we are happy that Kevin allowed us to publish it: “I’m writing to tell you how pleased I [...]
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