U2U is still looking for colleagues 16 October 2010 Peter-Himschoot Stuff Today someone asked my if U2U is still looking for new colleagues, since some time passed since the announcements in popular job-sites. The answer is YES! If you’d like to join the U2U team, contact us! And maybe you’ll be joining us at TechEd Berlin. The perfect opportunity to get to know each oth... [More]
Building a generic EntityViewModel 15 October 2010 Peter-Himschoot In this blog post I want to show you a little ViewModel wrapper for entities I’ve built. You can use it to wrap entities who don’t need to support property change notifications, implementing the INotifyPropertyChanged interface. When your model’s entities support INotifyPropertyChanged and IDataErro... [More]
Nog een beetje tijd over deze (natte) zomer? 09 August 2010 Peter-Himschoot Duik erin met MSDN. Microsoft Belgie heeft een aantal zelf-trainingen staan om je up-to-speed te krijgen met: Silverlight 4 Visual Studio 2010 Windows Phone 7 Windows Azure De laatste komt binnenkort online.
Add Search support for Add Reference 11 July 2010 Peter-Himschoot VS2010 Visual Studio 2010 now comes packed with too many assemblies. The list of assemblies to pick from in the Add Reference dialog is now a little too large for my taste. Today, while browsing around in the Visual Studio 2010 Extension Manager, I found the Search References extension: After installin... [More]
How to implement INotifyPropertyChanged without strings 14 June 2010 Peter-Himschoot .NET Development INotifyPropertyChanged is an interface which is very important to do proper databinding and is heavily used in the MVVM pattern. However, to implement it you have to raise the PropertyChanged event whenever a data-bound property changes value, and you have to pass the name of the property to it. Th... [More]
Farewell father 09 June 2010 Peter-Himschoot Today, at 18h30, my father-in-law Gaston Dhaese passed away after a 9 year battle against cancer. I’ve been told he didn’t suffer any pain, and I am glad he could die in piece with his loving family close by. Dear father, you have always been good and fair to me, my wife Isabelle and our children... [More]
Keeping a file checked out after check-in with Team System 11 May 2010 Peter-Himschoot Team System, VS2010 This week I got a question whether it is still possible to keep some file checked-out during a check-in. This is something you can do with Source Safe for example. To be honest I had no idea if this is possible, so I decided to have a look. So the answer is yes (although in general I think this is d... [More]
Apple wants to own you (especially when you’re a developer …) 15 April 2010 Peter-Himschoot Great read: http://www.slate.com/id/2250993/ If Microsoft ever wanted to do something like this … what would happen do you think? How is it Apple can?
Pex and Code Contracts 10 April 2010 Peter-Himschoot VS2010, .NET Development I’m currently experimenting with Pex, Moles and Code Contracts, and I wondered what effect code contracts have on Pex tests. So I build this simple piece of code: 1: public class Demo 2: { 3: public int Foo(int a, int b) 4: { ... [More]