Service Pack Collection for Visual Studio 2010, SQL Server 2008 and Microsoft Office 2007

By DimitriC at December 05, 2011 11:05
Filed Under: General, Microsoft, Visual Studio, tools & Utilities, SQL, Update, Office

Add national holidays to Outlook calendar automatically

By DimitriC at May 17, 2011 19:14
Filed Under: Office, Documentation, tips & tricks

 

In Microsoft Outlook you can automatically add your country’s national holidays.

In the “Tools” menu, select “Options”

 

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In the “Preferences” tab on the Options-screen there is a “Calendar”-section. Click on “Calendar Options”

 

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In the “Calendar options”-section of the Calendar Options (I swear, I’m not making this up) press the “Add Holidays…”-button.

 

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Now a list appears with all the countries for which national holidays are known in Outlook. Select the countries of which you want the holiday information imported in Outlook and click “OK”.

Microsoft All-in-one code framework

Something I found that might come in handy:

 

The Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework is a free, centralized code sample library driven by developers' needs. Our goal is to provide typical code samples for all Microsoft development technologies, and reduce developers' efforts in solving typical programming tasks.

 

Codeplex page

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Request a code sample

 

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