Tim Van Wassenhove

Passionate geek, interested in Technology. Proud father of two

13 Oct 2009

About databinding and composite views

A couple of days ago i had a databound ItemsControl (collection of Model.Cell) which instantiated sub views (with their ...
13 Oct 2009

Exploring M-V-VM

A couple of years ago a collegue recommended Data Binding with Windows Forms 2.0: Programming Smart Client Data Applicat...
13 Oct 2009

ViewModel to translate domain messages to view events

Here is an example of a ViewModel that translates domain messages to view events: class GameViewModel : INotifyPropertyC...
12 Oct 2009

Sokoban: Creating graphics with Expression Design

Earlier this morning i decided to improve the graphics the little. I launched Expression Design, created a new image, an...
10 Oct 2009

Presenting Sokoban with Silverlight

Despite the blablah postings, i have been able to code a little, so here is the boomboom: Sokoban.
10 Oct 2009

Silverlight wishlist

Here are the features that i would love to see in Silverlight: Allow users to copy text from the UI (Or was the UX argum...
09 Oct 2009

Configuring Apache to serve Office 2007 documents with the correct MIME type

Untill now i haven’t published any Office 2007 documents but i noticed that my webhost hasn’t configured apa...
08 Oct 2009

Fluent Builders: More than creating context specifications

Last couple of months i have been using the concept of (Fluent) Builder classes in order to create context specification...
08 Oct 2009

Fluent Builders: The case against implicit conversion

Most people add an implicit conversion to their builder API which gives them the advantage that they don’t have to...
08 Oct 2009

Fluent Builders: The case against implicit conversion (2)

Here is another example that demonstrates how implicit conversion in a Fluent Builder can lead to surprises (Jan Van Rys...