Tim Van Wassenhove

Passionate geek, interested in Technology. Proud father of two

07 Nov 2010

Build your solution with Visual Studio from MSBuild

Unfortunately MSBuild and BIDS Helper are not able to build an .asdatabase from our Analysis Services project (.dwproj)....
07 Nov 2010

Invoke PowerShell script from MSBuild

Here is a small MSBuild target that allows you to invoke a PowerShell script, eg: powershell.exe & ‘script.ps1...
07 Nov 2010

Modify a text file with PowerShell

A while ago i wanted to update a connection string in a configuration file. My first attempt was the following: Get-Cont...
01 Nov 2010

Deploying a Database Project does not create artefacts for custom schemas

Last week we noticed that the artefacts for a custom schema in our Database Project were not created (or updated). It to...
25 Oct 2010

Update all repositories with Powershell

I typically store the repositories i am working on under D:\Code. Each morning i had to right click on each of those fol...
07 Sep 2010

T-SQL: Remove all rows from all tables in your schema

Sometimes i want to quickly clean up a database and start from fresh. Here is a small script that does exactly that.. (I...
07 Sep 2010

WIF: whr parameter is a hint for user Home Realm

Yesterday i was reading the Claims Based Identity & Access Control Guide and learned that the whr parameter is a hin...
05 Sep 2010

WIF: Change STS per request

Here is some code that will redirect unauthenticated users to their respective STS (Eg: A user visiting ~/CompanyA/Defau...
25 Aug 2010

Making the TemplateFileTask easier to use...

One of the disadvantages of the TemplateFile task (msbuildtasks) is the fact that it requires a lot of typing to define ...
25 Aug 2010

What i dislike about the Web.config Transformation in VS2010

There are a couple of things that i strongly dislike about the Web.config transformation in VS2010 Only works with XML f...