Tim Van Wassenhove

Passionate geek, interested in Technology. Proud father of two

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...
08 Oct 2009

MSTEST tip: Add "Full Class Name" column to results view

I firmly believe that adding the ‘Full Class Name’ column to MSTEST’s result view makes it a lot easie...
05 Oct 2009

About Expression Blend

At first i developed most WPF interfaces by writing XAML in the code view of Visual Studio. Those days are gone 😉 These ...
05 Oct 2009

Professional WPF Programming: NET Development with the Windows Presentation Foundation

I am very disappointed with Professional WPF Programming: NET Development with the Windows Presentation Foundation. Apar...
05 Oct 2009

Programming WPF, Second Edition

I felt it was time to get up to speed with WPF so i decided to buy Programming WPF, Second edition. This book answered a...