Tim Van Wassenhove

Passionate geek, interested in Technology. Proud father of two

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...
11 Dec 2010

Techniques learned in SQLtopia: Look Ma, no loops!

I have been programming in c-based languages for more than 10 years now. Lately i have spent quite a bit of time in SQLt...