Tim Van Wassenhove

Passionate geek, interested in Technology. Proud father of two

22 Sep 2008

Presenting ConfigurationFileSession

Here is a little class that allows you to use different configuration files. I find it extremely useful for tests where ...
16 Sep 2008

Visual Studio 2008 (SP1) crashes when opening ViewPage in designer

Visual Studio 2008 (SP1) crashed every time i tried to open a ViewPage with the Web Form Editor (designer). Kudos go to ...
10 Sep 2008

Presenting a couple of custom MarkupExtensions

XAML provides us a way to declare objects with xml. Because i don’t want to clutter my domain classes with attribu...
06 Sep 2008

Distributed Data Applications with ASP.NET, Second Edition

Last week i finally got round to reading Distributed Data Applications with ASP.NET, Second Edition. The book was writte...
06 Sep 2008

More on choosing names for tests

Choosing names with the technique i presented yesterday leads to at least one class per method. To tackle that explosion...
06 Sep 2008

Presenting WindowsIdentityHelper

One of the difficulties of using the WindowsIdentity class is the fact that it requires a handle (IntPtr) to a Windows S...
05 Sep 2008

Experimenting with naming conventions for unit tests

To be honest, i never really took the time to think about the names of my unit tests. Although i noticed posts like this...
05 Sep 2008

The Microsoft Certified Professional Developer: Enterprise Applications Developer on Visual Studio 2005

Not that anyone should care, apart from my manager, i posted that the only remaining exam was 070-549 PRO: Designing and...
01 Sep 2008

Presenting AssemblyTypePicker

I really like the way the Object Browser makes the types in an assembly visible. Because i have a couple of programs tha...
01 Sep 2008

Presenting EventHandlerHelper

Being bored of writing code to raise an event, i have added an EventHandlerHelper to BeTimvwFramework. public static cla...