API Monitor - Version History

Version 1.5 | Jan 7, 2001

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.

Fixed a Bug in "Monitor Running Process" and "Load Process", where an error was displayed on Windows 95.

Added a API Details feature that displays information about the API in an easy-to-read format.
Modified the Event Pane, so that double-clicking on the API displays API Details instead of the Error Code Lookup tool.
Modified the Event Pane, so that failed API's are displayed in Red Color.
Modified the Parameter list, so that it also displays the name of the parameter.
Added support for monitoring two more categories of API's, viz., Debugging and Objects.
Modified the Message Pane, so that it displays a timestamp before each message.
Added support to display flags for some API's

Added support for Context-Sensitive menus
Added support for Printing and Print-Preview.
Added a Monitor Running Process command to monitor API's in a background process or a console-mode application that is already running.
Removed Thread Local Storage API's (TlsAlloc, TlsFree, etc) because they were called too many times and were degrading system performance to an unacceptable limit.
Added support to monitor Windows Sockets API's.
Modified API Parameters, so that strings are displayed in double quotes.
Added support to monitor the following NT Native API's, viz., Rtlxxx, Csrxxx and Ldrxxx.
Fixed a bug where in some cases API's were not being displayed in the same order in which they were called
Added support for NTSTATUS error codes in the Error Code Lookup tool.
Added a "GetProcAddress Hook" command, to monitor API's called using LoadLibrary-GetProcAddress.

Added a Load Process command: This command can be used to monitor API calls made by console-mode applications and API's called very early in the program.
Added another API category, Windows NT Security.
Fixed a Bug on Non-English OS's where the "Calculator" command opened another instance of calculator when clicked again, instead of using the previous one.
Added "Help Topics" and "Using Help" commands to the "Help" menu.