Tim Van Wassenhove

Passionate geek, interested in Technology. Proud father of two

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...
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 ...