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| VB Watch |
| Profile and Test your Code |
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| VB Watch v2 is a major new release of the Visual Basic 6.0 debugging, testing, profiling and error handling tool. |
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| New features |
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| Stand-alone or add-in.Execute VB Watch as a stand-alone tool or an add-in. Profile, Debug and Protect outside the VB IDE. |
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| Console automates instrumentation of one or more projects. Supports batch processing. (Enterprise Edition)
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| VB Watch Profiler |
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| Where are the bottlenecks? VB Watch Profiler lets you measure execution speed. See what procedures are the slowest ones, and which lines or loops are taking up most of the time. Or measure execution times before and after your enhancements: |
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| Profiler enhancements |
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- Graphs: View timings and execution counts in bar and pie graphs.
- Flow chart: view timings and execution counts in call tree format.
- View source with profiling results as color-coded HTML. Printable.
- More robust profiling for long sessions (.pfd file allows 5x more data in 2 GB limit).
- Print results. No need to export for printing.
- Ignore specific code lines with filters. Define critical code and view coverage results separately.
- Enhanced support for project groups (vbg) , IIS projects and "Retained in memory" projects.
- Generate HTML/CHM reports with charts and source code. (Enterprise Edition)
- Export full data to Excel for deeper analysis or macro processing. (Enterprise Edition)
- Rename and join sessions.
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| Test coverage. |
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| Are you sure you tested all your code? VB Watch Profiler records your tests as you execute them. It shows you in red what procedures and lines are still untested. |
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| Make sure you've tested all the Select Case branches and nested If..Then..Else's too. |
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| VB Watch Protector |
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| No more mysterious error messages and crashes! No more yelling users! VB Watch adds advanced error handlers to your code with a few clicks, keeping your existing handlers fully enabled. |
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| Error messages can include: error description, procedure name, line number, parameter and variable values, object properties, call stack, run-time library versions, and even execution trace procedure-by-procedure, line-by-line. |
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| Protector enhancements |
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- Better error reports: Screenshot dump, data encryption, file zip.
- Option for user to "Always ignore" a run-time error.
- Option for end-users to gracefully collapse the call stack, canceling the failed job but restarting from a no error state.
- Protect projects that have no user interface (redistributable is .dll instead of .ocx).
- Protect IIS projects.
- No need to distribute .obj file any more.
- Define multiple addresses as recipients of error reports.
- Auto-increment version number of original project.
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| Have the users email all this info immediately when an error happens. This is the fastest way to fix bugs ever discovered. |
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| Stop guessing - VB Watch tells you exactly where the bug is lurking! |
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| VB Watch Debugger (Enterprise Edition) |
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| Why debug compiled code? This is the way to do it when you're creating ActiveX controls or writing code for web browsers or Microsoft Transaction Server. Does your code behave as it should when compiled? |
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| Trace the procedure calls and executed code lines in your compiled apps. Even better, monitor and pause your app. See its status. What line is it on? What procedures were called with what arguments? Call stack? Which objects are alive? Setup breakpoints to your exe's and see what's really happening. |
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| Debugger completely redesigned with enhancements (Enterprise Edition) |
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- Monitor public variables.
- Monitor memory use.
- Remote debugging at client site via TCP/IP.
- Source code pane to track execution and set breakpoints at runtime.
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| VB Watch Console (Enterprise Edition) |
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| The instrumentation console allows you to batch process projects with predefined settings. |
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- The Console works together with Profiler, Protector and Debugger.
- Run the Console to instrument one or more projects in a batch.
- You can also call the console from a batch file to add error handling in a fully automated way each time right before you release your program.
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| VB Watch v2 works with Visual Basic 6.0. All generated code is 100% pure VB code, no need to distribute any extra run-time libraries. * |
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| Important! v2 Standard Edition does not include Debugger or Console even though it was part of v1 Suite. |
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