Tim Van Wassenhove

Passionate geek, interested in Technology. Proud father of two

12 Jan 2007

Presenting a Generic RemotingHelper

Last couple of months i’ve been experimenting with Remoting. Here is a class that helps a client to acquire proxie...
10 Jan 2007

Databinding a Nullable<T> property

I find it frustrating that data binding does not really support Nullable. Anyway, it’s relatively easy to workarou...
08 Jan 2007

Generating UTF-8 with System.Xml.XmlWriter

Today i decided to experiment with XmlWriter. The first i wanted to do was set the Encoding to UTF-8. StringBuilder stri...
07 Jan 2007

The NullableDateAndTimePicker Control

A while ago i presented the concept of a DateAndTimePicker. Today someone asked if it’s possible to give the user ...
06 Jan 2007

Enable and disable TabPages on a TabControl

Apparently Microsoft choose not to implement support for disabled TabPages. The reason seems to be that it’s agai...
04 Jan 2007

Developing a DataSource for your DataGridView

Imagine that you want to develop a DataSource that is capable to represent the data displayed in the following excel she...
31 Dec 2006

Print a Control

A while ago i discovered the DrawToBitmap method on the Control class. The availability of this method makes it relative...
27 Dec 2006

An example of why i don't like the ext/filter API

Earlier this week i decided to experiment with the Filter functions. Here’s an example that illustrates why i thin...
26 Dec 2006

Exploring System.CodeDom

Today i wanted to experiment with System.CodeDom. This little program requests the user to input names for a namespace, ...
19 Dec 2006

Drag and Drop Microsoft Office Outlook Contacts on your WinForm

Earlier today i saw someone that wanted to know how to drag and drop Microsoft Office Outlook Contacts on his winform (a...