Creating extension packages (plug-ins) for Microsoft Visual Studio IDE appears as quite an easy task at the first sight. There exist an excellent MSDN documentation, as well as various...
One of the most common errors a programmer encounters when porting applications from a Win32 system to a Win64 one is the error related to the function OnTimer. The function OnTimer is used nearly...
Much is said about good and harm of comments in program code and a single opinion hasn't been worked out yet. However, we've decided to take a look at comments from a different viewpoint...
Static code analysis is one of the error detection methodologies. We are glad that this methodology is becoming more and more popular nowadays. Visual Studio which includes static analysis as one...
I have found a nice code fragment with an error in one project. The PVS-Studio analyzer noticed it. But I didn't believe it at first: I thought the analyzer had been mistaken and considered...
If you want to ask us a question concerning PVS-Studio, its capabilities or ways to purchase it, we'll be glad to answer it. If you have any suggestions or you have noticed a bug in PVS-Studio...
The PVS-Studio analyzer sometimes generates mysterious messages mentioning a template class. For example: V614 Instantiate ReconstructMB<PlaneY, PlaneUV, color_format, false, 1>...
For a long time I was worried by some articles on the Internet in which the authors tried to judge about the usefulness of static code analyzers relying on analysis of small...
Many programmers think that the more error messages a static code analyzer produces, the better. It would be true if all the messages hit the bull's eye, as they say. But this is impossible: the...