Tim Van Wassenhove

Passionate geek, interested in Technology. Proud father of two

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...
10 Dec 2010

Exploring window functions

Here is a sample query that allows you to explore the behavior of various aggregate window functions: WITH [Nums1] AS ( ...
20 Nov 2010

Convert AAC/M4A files to MP3 with VLC and PowerShell

Here is a way to convert your AAC/M4A files to MP3 using VLC media player: vlc.exe -I dummy old.m4a :sout=#transcode{aco...
17 Nov 2010

Configure Visual Studio 2010 environment in PowerShell

Instead of using the “Visual Studo Command Prompt (2010)” i wanted to use PowerShell instead. I found this p...