Tim Van Wassenhove

Passionate geek, interested in Technology. Proud father of two

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...
18 Dec 2006

A DateAndTimePicker control

The DateTimePicker control allows the user to input a Date or a Time. The problem is that you can’t let the user p...
18 Dec 2006

Looking up the MediaType of a given Logical Drive

Earlier today i saw someone asking how he could find out the MediaType of a given logical drive. The easy solution would...
17 Dec 2006

Simple OutlookBar Control

Earlier this evening i wanted to experiment with the ToolStrip class so i decided to design a simple OutlookBar Control ...
16 Dec 2006

Pondering about the difference between abstract classes and interfaces

Back in May i was asked to explain the difference between an interface and an abstract class at a job interview. Obvious...