Tim Van Wassenhove

Passionate geek, interested in Technology. Proud father of two

17 Aug 2007

Exploring CodeDomSerializer

Sometimes we want absolute control over the code that the visual studio designer generates. Imagine that we have a UserC...
17 Aug 2007

StreamHelper

The following is an example of a classic mistake for people that read from a Stream Basically I think I've discovered a ...
11 Aug 2007

List string resources

Earlier today someone asked how he could list the string resources (name, value and comment) in a Resource file. Here is...
10 Aug 2007

Debugging custom UITypeEditors

If you read this you’re probably gonna think: What a moron! Anyway, i’m sharing this in the hope that i&rsqu...
07 Aug 2007

Helper methods for DbProviderFactory

Here are a couple of functions that make it easier to take advantage of the DbProviderFactory to create DbConnections pu...
04 Aug 2007

Professional SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services

Last couple of days i’ve been reading Professional SQL Server Reporting Services. Today i wanted to display some i...
28 Jul 2007

Exploring formatting...

In the documentation you can read the following for CultureInfo The CultureInfo class holds culture-specific information...
26 Jul 2007

Using interfaces with Drag and Drop

Earlier today i was refactoring some graphical components. I wanted to use an interface instead of concrete implementati...
18 Jul 2007

Pondering about DateTime and it's Ticks...

Recently someone was able to convince me that there is no problem with using System.DateTime for the storage of localtim...
17 Jul 2007

Update from localtime to UTC or any other timezone with Oracle

Imagine that you have a table with a column of the type DATETIME. You’ve been storing data as localtime and after ...