Schedule or Delay Sending an Email

I was wondering that whether Microsoft Outlook supports the feature that it can support delay sending an email, and today I know it has. It's really a good product.

Steps:

1. In the message, click Options.
2. Click Delay Delivery, and then click the delivery date and time you want.
3. If you don't want to delay the email, you can simply uncheck the checkbox.

For more information about delay all emails, please refer to: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/delay-or-schedule-sending-e-mail-messages-HP005242790.aspx

Visual Studio Doesn't Load Previous Opened Files

I met a rather strange problem that Visual Studio doesn't reload previous opened files. When I had worked on some files which were opened in Visual Studio, if I save and quit Visual Studio, next time I start the same project, no files would be opened.  I need to go the specific file and manually open it, which is not the normal "Work and Continue" type most of the users have. I searched a lot but there is no available solutions on the web, and below is what I have done to fix it:
1, Find someone who is using Visual Studio and doesn't have this problem
2, Copy the settings of that user in C:\Users\*****\Documents\Visual Studio 2010\Settings
3, Paste the settings in your own setting folder, which is the similar path like above

World is peaceful now. Sorry I cannot provide a screenshot because it's working now. :)

Adobe Acrobat Pro Tip - View Continuous Page in Read Mode

When I am using Adobe Acrobat in "Read Mode", one feature I find very useful is to read page continuously, which makes page scrolls smoothly, also the zoom function is very convenient. Also there is a nice way to let Acrobat remember your  habit.

1, Read Mode: Ctrl+H
2, View Continuous Page: View-->Page Display-->Enable Scrolling
3, Zoom: View-->Zoom
4, Remember habit: Edit-Preferences, In Open Settings, choose "Restore last view settings when reopening documents"

Update on July 01:
When in full screen mode, it's not able to scroll with down arrow key. But there is a tricky way to turn it on:

• Go Fullscreen: CtrlL
• Enable AutoScroll: CtrlShiftH
• Disable AutoScroll: CtrlShiftH

Visual Studio Toolbox Went Empty

My Visual Studio 2010 goes weird these days, one problem is that it cannot open previously opened files when Visual Studio starts again. This is not solved yet...

Another problem is when I am designing WinForm, the tool box went empty completely, no Windows Form controls like textbox, label... at all. Luckily I find a fix:

1, Navigate to this folder

Windows 7:

C:\Users\zhang5\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0

Windows XP:

C:\Documents and Settings\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0

(For VS2008 it will be 9.0)

2, Delete these hidden files

"toolbox.tbd", "toolboxIndex.tbd", "toolbox_reset.tbd", "toolboxIndex_reset.tbd"

Restart Visual Studio and it recovers.

Visual Studio DataSet Visualizer No Data, Please use Righthand Data Visualizer

I don't know why, but sometimes, when I was debugging Visual Studio codes, I cannot click the "Magnify" icon to view DataTable contents, this is so frustrating... Very inconvenient.

I have read some posts but none of them seemed useful, but luckily, I found there is another tool developed by Miha Markic, a Microsoft MVP, which can visualize the datatable.

This is called Righthand Data Visualizer:You can download it from here:

http://blog.rthand.com/page/Righthand-Dataset-Debugger-Visualizer.aspx

The installation path is:

Visual Studio installation path:

\Common7\Packages\Debugger\Visualizers

For example, in Visual Studio 2010, it's C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\Packages\Debugger\Visualizers

Don't need to restart Visual Studio, but if you are in debugging, you need to quit and debug again.

Let's see its screen:

Annoying IE warning"open a site in your trusted sites list Do you want to allow this?"

Internet Explorer will frequently popup warnings like "open a site in your trusted sites list Do you want to allow this?"


This really annoying... Let's get rid of it!

1, Go to Internet Explorer -->Internet Options,

2, Click Security Tab,

3, Click Trusted Sites (This is very important, click trusted sites)

4, Click Customer Level

5, Find an item "Websites in less privileged web content zone can navigate into this zone"

Change it from "Prompt" to "Enabled"

Enjoy!

Chrome English Version Download Chinese Garbled Code

I have installed Chrome English version, and it's very smooth and easy to use. But there is a problem when downloading file with Chinese name, the name will become garbled codes. The way to solve this:

1, Chrome-->Settings-->Options-->Under the Hood; See there is an item called "Customized Font" and click it

2, Change Encoding to Unicode (UTF-8)

Then everything is happy.