Tim Van Wassenhove

Passionate geek, interested in Technology. Proud father of two

03 Sep 2006

Generate a menu with month names

I still see people building their calendar control or month (or day) picker with a hardcoded array of month (or day) nam...
03 Sep 2006

List the month names

As i wrote in Generate a menu with month names it’s silly to hardcode month names. Here’s a C# sample using ...
03 Sep 2006

Selecting custom Objects from a ComboBox

Earlier this week someone asked me how he could select custom objects from a ComboBox. Here is the code he used private ...
03 Sep 2006

Selecting custom Objects from a DataGridView

Here is a way that allows the user to select a row (custom object properties are used as column values) from a DataGridV...
02 Sep 2006

Automating the configuration of Internet Options / Lan Settings

I got tired of manually changing my Internet Options / Lan Settings. It was really time to say goodbye to the dialog bel...
27 Aug 2006

Dynamic CSS with PHP

Both html and css are simply text. Thus you should be able to generate css as easily as html with php. Now if you add a ...
27 Aug 2006

tweaking Oracle SQL Developer

A couple of days ago i discovered Oracle SQL Developer, a new and free graphical tool for database development. At first...
26 Aug 2006

Unable to enlist in a distributed transaction

Earlier today we were confronted with the following OracleException: Unable to enlist in a distributed transaction. Our ...
21 Aug 2006

Experimenting with Oracle and PL/SQL

As i already wrote, last couple of days i’ve been experimenting with PL/SQL. At work we use Toad for Oracle but si...
14 Aug 2006

Installing MSDN Library May 2006

Today i downloaded the freely available MSDN Library (May 2006 Edition). I appended .iso to the filenames and mounted th...