Profiling tools for Linux

Some profiling tools on Linux

http://valgrind.org/

http://www.cs.utah.edu/dept/old/texinfo/as/gprof_toc.html

http://oprofile.sourceforge.net/about/

http://perfinsp.sourceforge.net/#Overview

Unit testing native (C/C++) code on Windows

"WinUnit offers a unique approach to unit testing native (C/C++) code on Windows."

http://winunit.codeplex.com/

Detecting memory leaks in C++

References from C++ Professionals group on LinkedIn.

http://www.research.att.com/~bs/bs_faq2.html#memory-leaks
http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_40_0/libs/smart_ptr/smart_ptr.htm
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/
http://www.flipcode.com/archives/Presenting_A_Memory_Manager.shtml
http://duma.sourceforge.net/
http://www.andreasen.org/LeakTracer/
http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/ElectricFence/
http://valgrind.org/

Visual Studio Gallery

A collection of products and extensions for MS Visual Studio.

http://www.visualstudiogallery.com/

Web service testing tool

Try soapUI..
Explore here http://www.soapui.org/

Apache JMeter,

http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/

Visual Memory Leak Detector

This one really helped me ...try this for yourself....

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/applications/visualleakdetector.aspx

Free SSL/TLS toolkit

http://www.openssl.org/

"The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, full-featured, and Open Source toolkit implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols as well as a full-strength general purpose cryptography library. "

Debugging references

Some links that i came across today,

http://advancedwindowsdebugging.com/
http://msdn.microsoft.com/hi-in/library/cc266544(en-us).aspx
http://www.dumpanalysis.org/blog/
http://www.nynaeve.net/
http://www.debugtricks.com/?cat=37

Windows XP command line

Thanks to Jagrut for this. :-)

http://www.ss64.com/nt/

Eclipse C/C++ Development Tooling - CDT

The CDT (C/C++ Development Tools) Project provides a fully functional C and C++ Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for the Eclipse platform.

Take a look,

http://www.eclipse.org/cdt/

Google C++ Testing Framework

Check this out friends,

http://code.google.com/p/googletest/
http://code.google.com/p/googletest/downloads/list
http://code.google.com/p/googletest/w/list

Debugging: VC++ and WinDbg

I came across one video on debugging,
http://blogs.msdn.com/ntdebugging/archive/2007/09/14/talkbackvideo-
understanding-handle-leaks-and-how-to-use-htrace-to-find-them.aspx

It explains how to find out handle leaks using WinDbg. I liked it very much.

Check this out guys.
http://blogs.msdn.com/ntdebugging/archive/2006/12/15/getting-ready
-for-windows-debugging.aspx#ntdebugsurvey1

Our favorite System tools

How can we forget our favorite procexp and tcpview?

Here is where we can get them,
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/default.aspx