Tim Van Wassenhove

Passionate geek, interested in Technology. Proud father of two

11 Jul 2009

Small modification to achieve better modularity with Prism

I have been experimenting with WPF and Prism (Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight) and ran into a maj...
27 Jun 2009

Beyond the basics: IPropertyAccessor

Consider the following classes: an abstract Account and a concrete SavingAccount abstract class Account { int Id { get; ...
16 Jun 2009

VS2010: Unable to insert a breakpoint by clicking next to the line number

For some reason i was unable to insert a breakpoint by clicking next to the line number in VS2010. Anyway, here is the t...
07 Jun 2009

Adding items to SendTo folder

When i tried to access the SendTo folder i got a message box saying: “Access is denied”. A bit of searching ...
06 Jun 2009

First thoughts about Windows 7

It is almost two years ago that i decided to uninstall Vista after a bad first impression. Nowadays i have learned to li...
25 May 2009

Using the Do handler for a method with out parameters

As you can read in the documentation for Rhino Mocks: There are times when the returning a static value is not good enou...
16 May 2009

Measuring elapsed time

As the documentation for System.Diagnostics.Stopwatch says In a typical Stopwatch scenario, you call the Start method, t...
05 May 2009

Sparkles

In my opinion Pieter Gheysens is one of those persons that has contributed something valuable to the Belgian .Net commun...
03 May 2009

Easy deployment through virtualisation

A couple of years ago, i think somewhere in 2003, i realised that hardware virtualisation was the way to go. Whenever i ...
03 May 2009

Enterprise Service Bus

I believe it was at an Alt.Net meeting that the Enterprise Service Bus book was mentionned and i recently decided to giv...