Tim Van Wassenhove

Passionate geek, interested in Technology. Proud father of two

20 Jul 2010

The Productive Programmer

The first part of the book covers some tools that may improve your productivity (but nothing that i did not use already)...
03 Jul 2010

Sometimes you can write it better than Resharper

Here is a real-life example of when people are much better expressing intent than a tool: Consider the following code fr...
26 Jun 2010

Convention over configuration with MSBuild

A while ago i blogged that i was using the TemplateFile task from the <a hrefhttp://msbuildtasks.tigris.org/">...
26 Jun 2010

Setting up a self-contained build

Here is something you may have experienced already: As a newcomer on an existing project, you check out the code from so...
28 May 2010

97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts

Lately i felt the need to work on my management skills so apart from practicing each day i decided to search for some in...
28 May 2010

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Internals

Around new year i found out that i would be working with SQL Server 2008 so i needed a crash course. Microsoft SQL Serve...
28 May 2010

Support both GET and HEAD requests on the same method with WCF REST

A while ago i had to modify an existing WCF REST service which was being consumed by BITS. Apparently the implementation...
28 May 2010

WCF REST: generate correct Content-Length header for HEAD request

The point of a HEAD request is to return a Content-Length header, but with an empty body. The WCF transport stack has th...
28 May 2010

Windows Internals: Including Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, Fifth Edition

Given the fact that i have been developing software for MS-Windows the last couple of years i found it important to lear...
02 May 2010

Enumerating SpecialFolders

Environment.SpecialFolder is a value-type that i always seem to forget about. Let’s try to do something about that...