User comments on VB Watch

User feedback on Profiler

After running a demo version of your VB Watch Profiler, I was able to make my application run about 2.5 times faster after only 10 minutes of work! This is one of the most useful applications I have encountered for my VB work, and the user interface is fantastic! My average project size is 10,000-40,000 lines of code, and I can definitely use your profiler on other projects.

The problem I was having was that I was using ADO and opening and closing the connection more often than I should. Once I cached the database connection, the speed of my application increased by 2.5 times. Your program showed me exactly where the problem was.

Rick Kamp

VB Watch Profiler found two lines in my program which slowed it down. Now, after fixing these lines with 5 clicks, the program works faster than ever, up to 10 times. And I thought I used a bad algorithm and had to write the program anew from scratch.

Daniel Springwald, springwald.de

I have only used your Profiler for about an hour, but it has picked up several bottlenecks in my application already. It is an extraordinary piece of software instrumentation. I cannot think of a more useful bit of software I have purchased in the last 5 years.

John Weatherley, Technical Director, DSG (ISO9001 Accredited Company)

I ran the Profiler option. One routine - DoEvents - was taking all of the clock cycles.

Jeremy Pollard

After some analysis and a little re-coding the application that took 20-30 minutes of 100% CPU (and completed about 60% of the time) did the same job in 4-6 seconds with about 25% CPU.

Peter Zoll

After using VB Watch Profiler I've managed to reduce data loading time from over 500 s to <10 seconds. VB Watch Profiler gave me the bottle­necks and saved me a lot of work.

Stein Groth, haBit Software

User feedback on Protector

We all hate seeing errors, but customers hate it even more than we do. Thanks to VB Watch, when an error occurred in our "beta" software on Saturday, it provided a "friendly" message that apologized for our error and explained that we really wanted to fix it. Of course, you already know that the message gave me all of the information I needed to fix it quickly.

Up to now, we've often relied upon needing the customer to send us his database, then "walk us" through the steps he took to create the error. Your product will probably save a lot time often needed to emulated the error in the design mode to find out exactly where the error was. [Variable Dump feature]

When a customer calls to thank you for your error message - instead of yelling at you, we must be doing something right!!!! And, of course, we are - we're using your software!

Tim VeArd

VB Watch Protector eliminated 40 hours per week of support calls and emails. It made the biggest difference in customer support.

D.K.

By the way, VB Watch is superb. We couldn't distribute without it. Our software is an Internet TV Receiver. We distribute it to the public and therefore have no idea who is using it. However, we have to know what errors are occurring and there is no better way than VB Watch. We have found virtually all the bugs through VB Watch and I honestly can't see how we would have done so without it.

Chris Patterson of VideoDam

VB Watch v2 has been a great help in finding the critical problems, our users are spread all over the world and due to limited connectivity it was impossible for us to otherwise see what actually had happened when the application crashed (now we received all details in the mail). VB Watch has greatly improved our product quality and user confidence.

Theo de Roo, MAF Europe

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Independent review

When I run the software here, I do not get any errors. When the customer runs it, however, there are errors.

We have to put in many lines of code to “trap” conditions, error handling, log files and the like. But VB Watch can save the programmer from these time-consuming tasks. The error logging is very detailed and complete. The response window allows for an e-mail to be sent to the developer, which is very handy.

Automation Software 03/2006