Tim Van Wassenhove

Passionate geek, interested in Technology. Proud father of two

28 Jul 2008

NHibernate SessionFactory configuration

My preferred way for configuring NHibernate is as following Create a hibernate.cfg.xml file for session-factory settings...
26 Jul 2008

Error loading testrunconfig: Failed to instantiate type Microsoft.VisualStudio.TestTools.WebStress.WebTestRunConfig

Earlier this week i ran into the following exception when opening a solution: “Error loading TestRunConfig1.testru...
22 Jul 2008

About the Specification pattern

A couple of days ago i mentionned Yves Goeleven’s blog as a reference for solutions using DDD principles. Let&rsqu...
19 Jul 2008

.NET Domain-Driven Design with C#: Problem -- Design -- Solution

Since i didn’t find many reviews on Tim McCarthy’s book: .NET Domain-Driven Design with C#: Problem – ...
16 Jul 2008

Presenting a generic DiscreteValuesRange

Let me start with a real world example demonstrating the usefulness of a generic DiscreteValuesRange. Imagine that i run...
30 Jun 2008

Presenting HtmlClipboard

Very often i need to encode/decode the contents of my Clipboard so i decided to write a little tray application to help ...
28 Jun 2008

Example implementation of a callback method for use in the Asynchronous Programming Model

I always seem to forget about the mechanics of implementing a Callback method that can be used in the Asynchronous Progr...
26 Jun 2008

MCTS++

Today i passed Exam 70-529 and thus became a MCTS: .NET Framework 2.0 Distributed Applications. This means that there is...
21 Jun 2008

Note about makecert.exe

A couple of days ago i didn’t have a binary version of OpenSSL around so i decided to use Makecert.exe. I generate...
17 Jun 2008

PInvoke Interop Assistant released

Earlier at Tech Ed North America i heared how Jesse Kaplan, program Manager for Extensibility and add-ins for the CLR te...