Tim Van Wassenhove

Passionate geek, interested in Technology. Proud father of two

13 Aug 2009

Experimenting with ControlStateMachine and Fluent interfaces

A long time ago i read Build your own CAB series and recently i noticed that there is a wiki: Presentation Patterns Wiki...
13 Jul 2009

Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist Reveals How to Think Differently

Because i really enjoyed managing humans i bought another book mentionned by Joel Spolsky: Iconoclast: A Neuroscientist ...
11 Jul 2009

Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions

A while ago we had a session on messaging at ALT.NET Belgium and it was then that i decided i should order my copy of En...
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...