Chris Leong

Disoriented views from the rosy lens of an optimistic realist.

Outlook Tips & Tricks – Managing your folders

If you are like me, my Outlook mail have too many folders storing different types of emails. Searching for your folders can be messy.

Here are some tips on how to add your frequently use folder in your favourite list.

 

Favorite folders are shortcuts to your most commonly used folder. Think of it the same as your desktop shortcut. To create a favorite folder, simply drag any folder up to the Favorite Folders area and drop it.

Remember though, if you drag “too many” favorite folders then you will end up with the same problem. So it should some selected folders that you always use

 

Favorite Folders in Outlook

Favorite Folders in Outlook

 

 

The next time you need to access the folder, just click on the favorite folder.

To remove a favorite folder, just right click and select “Remove from favorite folders”. Do not, do not delete as it will delete the original folder as well

Remove folder from favorites

Record a webcast on your desktop

Try out Office Community Clip. This is a useful tool that allows you to record your voice and all the activities in the screen in your desktop.

It is very useful tool for you to:

  • record your presentation and share it with others
  • Share your tips and tricks via video rather than text

Download the Office Community Clip and try it out..

Kiss Off

I was browsing through the net during the holidays and found this interesting game develop to discourage youth from smoking in New Zealand. The name of the game is called Kiss Off.

Avoid Kissing the Smoker

Avoid Kissing the Smoker

Basically it’s a simple game where you need to avoid the grouchy and smelly smokers to reach your goal. What goal? The hot chick or hot hunk la of course. Then you will go through a game where you can practice your kissing skills using a mouse (lame but fun). What’s interesting about this is, it have unique names for different kind of kisses. Read the rest of this entry »

VB Futures

Wanna know more about how VB 10 looks like.  Visit the links and download the sample codes.
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/vbfuture.

The Return of the Experts

TechNet MSDN Returns

TechNet MSDN Returns

Book your calendars if you want a sneak preview of Windows 7. Microsoft is having an Technet MSDN event to showcase the latest in technologies.

 

This event will be taking place in Kuala Lumpur Convention Center on the 15th January 2009.

 

They’ll be showing a 2 hour Microsoft client and server platform demo-relay and a sneak preview of Windows 7!

 

Go to www.microsoft.com/malaysia/events/technetmsdn/ to reserve a seat.

Office 2007 Add-Ins – Save as PDF

A friend of mine asked me what software to install to print office documents to PDF. Microsoft provides an Add-In to allow Office documents to be save as PDF format.

Hope this is useful for people who don’t know about it.

Microsoft Save as PDF

Another cool idea by Volkwagen

These folks are really good at getting attention. Volkswagen just came out with another cool digital marketing idea that I like.
They came out with a very fancy idea of introducing its features. It sort of simulates how useful it is in a real scenario. Instead of trying to figure out what this “Lane Assist” feature means, play a short game to understand what it is about.
Check it out @ http://www.vwinnovatie.nl/en/

Volkwage Cool Inovations

Volkwage Cool Inovations

Volkswagen Lane Assist

Volkswagen Lane Assist

New charting controls for ASP.NET

Just found out from Scott Gu’s blog that there is a new charting tool for ASP.NET. You can download it from:

Download the free Microsoft Chart Controls

There are many sampels and documentation on how you can use this control. Now this is much more easier for developers to create interactive charts.

Check out the AJAX enable charts, that’s my favourite

ASP.NET chart Controls

ASP.NET chart Controls

Excel Tips & Tricks – Enter a Fraction in a Cell

When doing excel calculation, sometimes I want to display value as 1/3 instead of 0.33333. I just learnt that you can do that in Excel with just a few simple steps.

Microsoft Office Excel can display, and take data entry as, fractions as well as decimal numbers. To enter a fraction, simply prefix it with a zero and a space.

 

So to display the fraction one-third, type 0 1/3. This will display 1/3 but will have an underlying value of 0.33333333. The cool thing about this, is when you do a simple calculation, it will automatically convert it to fraction for you.

EG. 1/3 X 5 will convert to 1 2/3.

Try it out, I guess this is some of the hidden secrets of Excel that not many people know. At least I don’t, until now.

ALM Workshop – Slides

I presented in the Application Lifecycle Management Workshop on 18 Nov, Tuesday on “Governing Software Quality with Visual Studio Team System”.

Here are my slides

 

 

If you have a webpage still running on ASP, you can use this tool to check for SQL injections vulnerabilities. Microsoft Source Code Analyzer for SQL Injection