Tim Van Wassenhove

Passionate geek, interested in Technology. Proud father of two

26 Sep 2008

Why MockRepository does not implement IDisposable

Earlier this week i was experimenting with Rhino Mocks and i was wondering why the MockRepository does not implement IDi...
23 Sep 2008

Refactoring ApplicationEnvironment

Yesterday i blogged about an ApplicationEnvironment which had a dependency on the application configuration file. With m...
23 Sep 2008

Refactoring EffectivityManager

A while ago i presented the EffectivityManager. Having used this class for a while i have decided to rename it to Tempor...
22 Sep 2008

Presenting ApplicationEnvironment

Imagine we are an ice cream vendor. During summer months our available capacity is twice as high as in the rest of the y...
22 Sep 2008

Presenting ConfigurationFileSession

Here is a little class that allows you to use different configuration files. I find it extremely useful for tests where ...
16 Sep 2008

Visual Studio 2008 (SP1) crashes when opening ViewPage in designer

Visual Studio 2008 (SP1) crashed every time i tried to open a ViewPage with the Web Form Editor (designer). Kudos go to ...
10 Sep 2008

Presenting a couple of custom MarkupExtensions

XAML provides us a way to declare objects with xml. Because i don’t want to clutter my domain classes with attribu...
06 Sep 2008

Distributed Data Applications with ASP.NET, Second Edition

Last week i finally got round to reading Distributed Data Applications with ASP.NET, Second Edition. The book was writte...
06 Sep 2008

More on choosing names for tests

Choosing names with the technique i presented yesterday leads to at least one class per method. To tackle that explosion...
06 Sep 2008

Presenting WindowsIdentityHelper

One of the difficulties of using the WindowsIdentity class is the fact that it requires a handle (IntPtr) to a Windows S...