Tim Van Wassenhove

Passionate geek, interested in Technology. Proud father of two

01 May 2010

Get root directory for IsolatedStorageFiles

Sometimes you want to know the absolute path of a file that is persisted with IsolatedStorageFile. Apparently there is a...
19 Apr 2010

97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts

I learned a couple of valuable lessons from 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the E...
18 Feb 2010

Exploring System.Interactive

A couple of weeks ago i was working on an application that would transfer data through a couple of components as a List....
17 Feb 2010

Learned something from Resharper: Enumerable.OfType<TResult>

A couple of weeks ago i discovered Enumerable.OfType when i let Resharper rewrite my code as a Linq statement. Here is t...
15 Feb 2010

Calculate EndpointAddress for Silverlight client

Because Silverlight checks the origin it considers http://localhost and http://127.0.0.1 as different locations. In case...
12 Feb 2010

Clever TemplateFile hack

In my current project i use TemplateFileTask (MSBuild Community Tasks Project) to generate configuration files. I ran in...
10 Feb 2010

Another missing method for IEnumerable<T>

Currently there are two overloads for OrderBy on Enumerable OrderBy(this IEnumerable source, Func<TSource, TKey> k...
02 Feb 2010

Verify that a X509Certificate can be used for key exchange

Here is another method that earned it’s place in my ever growing toolbox: public static bool CanDoKeyExchange(this...
28 Jan 2010

Presenting ValueType<T>

Here is a base class for some code that i have written once too many in my life: (In case you’re an early adaptor ...
27 Jan 2010

Do we need an EventAggregator when we have an IOC container?

An Event Aggregator is an example of a Publish/Subscribe channel. A while ago i started wondering if we still need an Ev...