Tim Van Wassenhove

Passionate geek, interested in Technology. Proud father of two

19 Oct 2009

True KeyBehavior with System.Windows.Interactivity.Behavior

Yesterday i demonstrated how attached properties can be used to invoke commands on specific key presses (and releases). ...
17 Oct 2009

Silverlight: leveraging attached properties to handle key events

I strongly believe that input handling is a responsability that belongs to the View. At first i simply added the followi...
16 Oct 2009

Exploring graphical programming with Blend, Visual State Manager and Behaviors

A while ago i presented the ControlStateMachine and in Silverlight this concept is implemented as the Visual State Manag...
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...