Tim Van Wassenhove

Passionate geek, interested in Technology. Proud father of two

22 Feb 2007

Presenting the SortableBindingList<T>

If you are databinding your custom objects (in a Bindinglist of ) to a DataGridView you will notice that the users can&r...
07 Feb 2007

Don't wait until the DateTimePicker has lost focus to write back the values

Drag a TextBox and a DateTimePicker control on a Form and databind them to a DateTime property, eg public partial class ...
04 Feb 2007

Control the order of Properties in your Class

Sometimes you want to manipulate the order in which properties are used for databinding. Eg: If you drag and drop an obj...
29 Jan 2007

About the Wow, i removed Vista from my harddisk, experience

A couple of weeks ago i decided to install Vista Ultimate… Despite the marketing efforts my only Wow experience w...
27 Jan 2007

Presenting the DataGridViewLargeTextBoxCell

Today i decided to experiment a bit with custom DataGridViewCell implementations. If you insert large text into a DataGr...
21 Jan 2007

About Thread-Safe GUI...

If you’re writing windows applications you’ll most certainly recognize the following piece of code private d...
20 Jan 2007

Reading and writing unmanged structs from binary files

I still remember one of the first tasks during my internship (At a software shop that still used Visual Studio 6 as deve...
17 Jan 2007

Exploring DataGridViewComboBoxColumn databinding

Let’s start with a simple example: Each Person has a Name (string) and PersonTypeCode (an Enumerated value) proper...
14 Jan 2007

Making WebRequests in parallel...

Under the assumption that making sequential WebRequests is slower than making them in parallel i wrote a little program ...
13 Jan 2007

Hide and unhide columns (or rows) in the DataGridView

Once in a while i see the following question I have to create a customized datagridview to enable the expandable columns...