Category Archives: Programming

SmartInspect licenses for user groups

Now that we just announced our TestRail offer for open source teams, we also wanted to formalize our SmartInspect license offer for software development user groups. We have sponsored dozens of .NET, Java and Delphi user groups over the years and regularly blogged about it. So we are happy to make this a permanent offer [...]
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WCF logging and tracing with SmartInspect

Distributed software applications are usually difficult to debug. Bugs and performance issues can occur on the client, on the server or in the communication stack. Finding the root cause of such problems is often not trivial, especially if the issue only occurs on a production system. Luckily, .NET logging tools like SmartInspect help with this [...]
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New SmartInspect demos

Over the next few weeks we are going to rewrite some of the demo applications we ship with SmartInspect and also add new ones. So far we just had a handful of demo applications for each supported platform (.NET, Java and Delphi) and we feel that users would benefit from additional demos that showcase more [...]
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Aspect-oriented logging for .NET with Unity 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 of the available posts. Michael Baarz recently emailed us as he was a looking for a modern .NET logging tool for his company’s complex [...]
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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. Our PostSharp aspect library has a new home: SmartInspect for PostSharp There are various AOP frameworks available for each of the [...]
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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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