Category Archives: SmartInspect

Optimizing Memory Consumption with String Pools

By Dennis Gurock | Published: March 5, 2009
For those of you who haven’t yet subscribed to our new software quality blog, here are links to an interesting post series Tobias has recently written and published on No bug left behind. Tobias explains how to reduce memory usage by making use of string pools and shows how we integrated this technique into the [...]
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New SmartInspect beta versions

By Tobias Gurock | Published: February 23, 2009
We’ve just uploaded a new beta build for the upcoming SmartInspect 3.2.0 release. The exact version number is 3.2.0.8496. This build integrates several additional techniques to reduce the memory consumption of the SmartInspect Console, the most important being a new string pool for caching and reusing strings. You can read more about this string pool [...]
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Free SmartInspect licenses for user groups and developer events

By Dennis Gurock | Published: February 9, 2009
We have offered free SmartInspect licenses as a raffle prize to user groups in the past and have sent license vouchers and SmartInspect flyers to dozens of .NET, Java and Delphi user groups and events. We want to  repeat the success of this promotion and are offering free licenses of SmartInspect 3.x to interested developer [...]
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SmartInspect 3.2 EAP (beta) version available

By Dennis Gurock | Published: January 29, 2009
We just uploaded a new Early Access Program build of SmartInspect 3.2 to our customer portal. Besides adding some often requested features to the Console and logging libraries, we made some major changes to the SmartInspect Console in how it loads and processes log files, reducing the memory usage during log file loading drastically and [...]
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Merry Christmas

By Dennis Gurock | Published: December 24, 2008
We here at Gurock Software wish you all a merry Christmas. We are taking a few days off and will be back early next week. Enjoy the holidays and have a great time!
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Using SmartInspect with madExcept

By Dennis Gurock | Published: December 17, 2008
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 [...]
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Integrating SmartInspect with EurekaLog

By Dennis Gurock | Published: December 10, 2008
“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 [...]
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SmartInspect Praise

By Dennis Gurock | Published: November 10, 2008
Ryan Wheeler, a SmartInspect user and developer of Microsoft SharePoint add-ons, recently published an entry about our logging tool on his blog: “It’s blindingly fast, easy to use, clear and has all manner of time saving features – easy navigation, graphs, filters, colours and much more. Yes the software is a few hundred dollars but [...]
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SmartInspect for PHP logging

By Dennis Gurock | Published: October 6, 2008
We just uploaded a minimal SmartInspect logging library implementation for PHP. The library only supports logging via TCP to a local or remote SmartInspect Console instance and doesn’t contain all log methods and features that are available in the main libraries. However, it already supports multiple logging sessions, watches and useful log methods such as [...]
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SmartInspect 3.1 with Delphi 2009 support released

By Dennis Gurock | Published: September 18, 2008
We just released SmartInspect 3.1 with full support for Delphi 2009 and C++ Builder 2009. All changes of the new SmartInspect version at-a-glance: Added: Full support for Delphi and C++Builder 2009 Changed: Named pipes are now opened in exclusive mode by the Console Fixed: Session loading via configuration files is now case insensitive Fixed: A [...]
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