What's new in API Monitor 2.0 Alpha r13
Jul 6, 2015
- Save Capture
- Monitor Windows 8 Metro applications
- View Asynchronous I/O
- Pause Monitoring and Process Notifications
- 2500 new API’s and 500 new COM Interfaces
- Improved Portable Version
- Launch Multiple Instances
- Bug Fixes
New in API Monitor 2.0 Alpha r12 (Jul 6, 2015)
- New ‘Static Import’ attach method
- Attach method can be selected when monitoring a running process
- Drag-and-drop support – Drop shortcuts or files into the API Monitor window to start monitoring a process
- Monitor processes like csrss.exe and consent.exe
- Fixed issues with ‘Remote Thread’ methods on Windows XP SP3
- Fixed crash when dropping calls
- Fixed issue where target application was crashing on close
- Definitions updated to include changes in structures for Windows 8
New in API Monitor 2.0 Alpha r11 (Jul 6, 2015)
- Process detection and notification
- Thread and Error higlighting
- Instantly filter on modules and threads for a process
- Monitor processes like csrss.exe and consent.exe
- Support for older version delay descriptors
- Support for monitoring COM entry points such as DllGetClassObject, DllRegisterServer etc
- Definitions for Native Client-Server (CSR) API’s
- Support for decoding error codes from the Visual C++ Runtime library
New in API Monitor 2.0 Alpha r10 (Jul 6, 2015)
- Monitor any API from any DLL without creating definitions.
- Monitor calls to DllMain entry point and early API calls.
- Capture Date and Time, Time of day and Relative Time for each API call.
- 2,000 New API’s including over 1,300 from the Visual C++ Run-Time Library.
- Performance improvements in DLL load detection.
- Support for decoding IOCTL codes.
- Windows 8 Compatible.
New in API Monitor 2.0 Alpha r9 (Jul 6, 2015)
- Limits on the number of API calls and amount of memory allocated for API calls have been removed.
- Due to this, API Monitor now uses memory backed by the file system instead of the page file.
- Process Locator Tool – Drag the mouse cursor over a window to locate and monitor the process that owns that window.
- API Definitions are now cached for faster load time during startup.
- .NET – Support for monitoring Windows API’s in 32-bit, 64-bit and Pure IL .NET applications.
- API calls and/or processes can be removed without having to restart API Monitor.
- Support for monitoring 200 new COM Interfaces and 400+ new API’s including undocumented API’s.
New in API Monitor 2.0 Alpha r8 (Jul 6, 2015)
- Display Filtering – Dynamically show/hide calls based on selected criteria such as API Name, Error Message, Call Duration, Call Stack Functions etc.
- API Call Duration – API Monitor now calculates and displays the time taken by each monitored API call
- Recently Used Process List – Launch recently monitored processes with a single-click
- ToolBar Updates to include commonly used monitoring options
- Hardware Counter Profiling (HCP) API’s
New in API Monitor 2.0 Alpha r7 (Jul 6, 2015)
- 300+ new COM Interfaces, 700+ new API definitions
- Support for dynamic arrays
- Support to convert pointers to arrays based on the value of another parameter/field
- Fixed bug where single-character data types were not being displayed correctly in certain cases.
- Fixed bug in structure padding. More Info…
- Added API definitions for Core Audio, Microsoft Media Foundation, Network List Manager, Windows Property System, Kernel Transaction Manager, Windows Genuine Advantage, Transactional NTFS, Pipes and Uniscribe
- Digitally signed application and installer
- Fixed issue where 64-bit installer was not setting API definition path when 32-bit version was not selected for installation.
- Installer now uninstalls previous versions automatically.
- Installer no longer creates a system restore point since no changes are made to any system configuration.
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and changes to API definitions
New in API Monitor 2.0 Alpha r4 (Jul 6, 2015)
- Added support for Breakpoints
- Added support for MAPI COM Interfaces
- Increased maximum limit of captured API calls to 100,000
- Added support to load and save the capture filter to a file
- Redesigned parameter view to allow expandable view of pointers and strings
- Added shortcut keys F6, SHIFT+F6 to switch between active panes and CTRL+TAB, CTRL+SHIFT+TAB to switch between tabs in a pane
- Added support to view data in 1/2/4/8 byte and big-endian/little-endian format in the Hex pane
- Added used memory indicator to status bar
- Fixed bug where floating point values were incorrectly displayed on x64 if call stack capture was enabled
- Miscellaneous changes in API definition
New in API Monitor 2.0 Alpha r3 (Jul 6, 2015)
- Fixed bug where API failures were not being reported correctly in ADVAPI32.DLL
- Fixed bug where command line parameters were not passed correctly to target application. Details…
- Corrected License terms for XML Parser
New in API Monitor 2.0 Alpha r2 (Jul 6, 2015)
- COM Monitoring support. Added definitions for 600+ COM interfaces including Shell, Web Browser, DirectX, DirectSound, DirectShow
- Support to capture and display call stack for 32-bit and 64-bit
- Ability to automatically monitor child processes
- API’s reordered into subcategories to more closely match MSDN
- Added support to run standalone (without installing)
- Improved performance of API definition file loader by switching XML Parser
New in API Monitor 2.0 Alpha (Jul 6, 2015)
- Completely rewritten
- Added 64-bit Support
- Support to monitor Windows Services
- Approx 10,000 API’s in 168 Categories
- Added Syntax Highlighting for API Calls
- Amount of data captured from buffers and strings is now configurable
- API definitions are stored in XML files, allowing for custom API definitions
- Added support to display API call tree
- Added support for displaying threads
New in API Monitor 1.5 (Jul 12, 2007)
- Added support to display API help in MSDN library (if installed).
- Added filters to monitor Memory Management and Window Classes API's.
- Standard Registry Keys are displayed using their names in API Details, instead of their numeric value.
- Fixed a bug where some Unicode Registry calls were being displayed as ASCII calls.
- Added support to display Buffers in Read and Write, calls for Registry, Files and Windows Sockets.
- Updated IOCTL Decoder to recognize more IOCTL codes. Over 200 IOCTL's can be decoded.