Tim Van Wassenhove

Passionate geek, interested in Technology. Proud father of two

17 May 2008

Presenting a generic Range

Quite often i’m writing code that compares one value against a range of other values. Most implementations compare...
21 Apr 2008

Build OpenSSL with Visual Studio 2008

These days building OpenSSL with Visual Studio 2008 has become really easy. I don’t like to edit .cnf files so i d...
22 Mar 2008

Easily switching between configuration files with MSBuild

A couple of days ago i wrote about Easily switching between App.Config files with MSBuild. Christophe Gijbels, a fellow ...
22 Mar 2008

Why doesn't Visual Studio display my MSBuild message texts?

In order to debug an MSBuild script i added a couple of tasks, but when i asked Visual Studio to Build i didn’t ge...
17 Mar 2008

Easily switching between App.Config files with MSBuild

Imagine the following situation: One codebase, two customers with different Application Configuration files. How can we ...
14 Mar 2008

Heroes happened {Here}

I’m back from Heroes Happen Here. Even with a fullhouse this convention was well organized and evertyhing went pre...
14 Mar 2008

Using Linq for statically-typed reflection

I discovered the TypedReflector on Daniel Cazzulino’s Blog. In essence, a simplified version of the code looks lik...
08 Mar 2008

Using System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement to find the members of an AD group

A while ago i posted some code that demonstrated how to find the members of an AD group. If you’re using the brand...
06 Mar 2008

Exploring alternative input: ActiveHome

A while ago i bought Media Centerkit for an euro or two. I wouldn’t recommend the product because it comes with cr...
05 Mar 2008

Find the members of an AD group

Because i always seem to forget about the syntax of LDAP Search Filters (RFC 2254: The String Representation of LDAP Sea...