Tim Van Wassenhove

Passionate geek, interested in Technology. Proud father of two

12 Mar 2011

Dynamic scriptblock with PowerShell

Earlier this week i tried to run a command on a remote computer but it did not seem to work: $name = 'tim' $comp...
12 Mar 2011

Some PowerShell functions to work with SSIS packages

Here are some powershell functions (using XPath) that come in handy when working with SSIS packages: function FindConnec...
12 Mar 2011

Some tips for .Net developers using git on cygwin

Here are some tips that i want to share with fellow .Net developers that use git on cygwin. First of all i defined some ...
12 Mar 2011

Using WinMerge as difftool on cygwin/git

Last couple of weeks i have been using Git on cygwin and i got very satisfying results out of it. One thing that i wante...
08 Mar 2011

Get/SetVariable value from SSIS VariableDispenser

Here is some code that allows you to Get/Set a variable (object) value from/on the VariableDispenser in an SSIS package:...
05 Mar 2011

Consume custom SSIS tasks without GAC installation

For a while i thought that in order to consume a custom SSIS task you had to install the assembly in the GAC. Now i know...
26 Feb 2011

Exploring messaging at lower levels...

Yesterday a colleague of mine, Neil Robbins, asked me how a piece of code would look like if I apply the Hollywood princ...
24 Jan 2011

Get current file in PowerShell

A while ago i wrote a small script to take care of deployment. Configuring the source folders went as following: param( ...
24 Jan 2011

Polling the existence of a file with PowerShell

Sometimes you run into a situations where a given task spawns a separate thread and completes it’s work on that se...
06 Jan 2011

Get entire message body from an Intent

I recently started programming the Android and noticed that most examples for processing an incoming SMS are not entirel...