Happiness Quotes!

Received in mail from a friend and want to add it in my blog, Credit got to writer.

Happiness is a mental or emotional state of well-being characterized by positive or pleasant emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy.

• “People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
• “I'm choosing happiness over suffering, I know I am. I'm making space for the unknown future to fill up my life with yet-to-come surprises.”
• “Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.”
• We become more successful when we are happier and more positive.
• The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
• Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives:  where we focus our attention.
• We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives,  our interest and our attention to something outside ourselves.
• Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.
• Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.
• Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
• Tell me what you feel in your room when the full moon is shining upon you  and your lamp is dying out, and I will tell you how old you are, and I shall know if you are happy.
• Happiness is living by inner purpose, not by outer pressures.
• Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.
• It’s a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy.
• The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
• There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.
• The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.
• While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.
• Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
• To be happy, drop the words 'if only' and substitute instead the words 'next time'.
• It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day to day basis.
• Growth itself has the germ of happiness.
• Delight in mediation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.
• Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.
• May everyone be happy and safe, and may their hearts be filled with joy.
• To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind  he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Create User Define Function and Macro as an Add-in

We work lot in excel and manage our work with functions and macros. I am here creating the process that will save your time and effort to re-create again and again the same functions or macros.

Here we are going to create Add-in that will automatically load when you open your excel, and the function will be available all the time. So let's start.

Step 1: Quickly create an empty add-in for excel

1. Open excel and Save a blank workbook as a Excel Add-In (*.xlam) in your Add-In folder (%UserProfile%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\AddIns)
2. I named it PersonalAddIn.xlam (Save it with any name you like)
3. Click Office button.
4. Click "Excel options" button.
5. Click "Add-Ins" tab.
6. Select "Excel Add-ins" from manage dropdown list and click GO
7. Click "Browse" button
8. Select the (.xlam) file that you just saved in step 1
9. Click OK (Make sure you enable)

Step 2: Add custom functions and macros to your personal add-in

1. Go to the Developer Tab on the ribbon.
2. Click "View Code"
3. Click on the project panel you see VBAProject (*.xlam)
4. Click Insert Menu --> Module
5. Copy and paste custom functions and macros to code window.

That's it... we are done.

Step 3: Use your user define function

1. Go to the cell
2. Click "Insert Function" in formula bar
3. Select category "User Defined"
4. Select your custom function
5. Click OK

Step 4: Use your user define Macro

1. Go to "Developer" tab
2. Click "Macros" button
3. Select/Type the macro name
4. Click "Run"

Hope this will help you in you daily work, In case of any query you can write to me. Thanks for reading.

Windows Registry Tips

A small tweak which disables processing of autorun.inf to protect your PC from usb autorun viruses.

Windows Registry Tips

Remove Language Bar from Taskbar
[-HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID\{540D8A8B-1C3F-4E32-8132-530F6A502090}]
@="Language bar"
"MenuTextPUI"="@%SystemRoot%\\System32\\msutb.dll,-325"


Allow Internet Explorer 7+ to open direct links to swf files (XP/Vista/7)
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main\FeatureControl\FEATURE_BLOCK_LMZ_SCRIPT]
"iexplore.exe"=dword:00000000


Disable the Turn off computer button on the Welcome screen (XP/Vista/7)
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System]
"shutdownwithoutlogon"=dword:00000000

Disable USB Autorun to Save PC from USB Viruses (XP/Vista/7)
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\IniFileMapping\Autorun.inf]
@="@SYS:DoesNotExist"

Disable Writing to USB Drives (XP/Vista/7)
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies]
"WriteProtect"=dword:00000001

Enable Writing to USB Drives (XP/Vista/7)
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\StorageDevicePolicies]
"WriteProtect"=dword:00000000

Note: Modifying the registry can cause serious problems that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Use the information provided at your own risk.

What is a 404 error page mean?

In 1992 Tim Berners-Lee defined all the HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) codes based on the FTP (File Transfer Protocol) status codes. If you break it down, 

• The first '4' indicates the error is a client error
• Second the '0' indicates a general syntax error
• Final '4' refers to the specific error code in the '4xx' group of error codes.

List of HTTP status Code

So, in brief you can say that, the 404 or Not Found error message is a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) standard response code, in computer network communications, to indicate that the client was able to communicate with a given server, but the server could not find what was requested. The web site hosting server will typically generate a "404 Not Found" web page when a user attempts to follow a broken or dead link; hence the 404 error is one of the most recognizable errors encountered on the World Wide Web.

Thoughts

• THE ONLY TIME SUCCESS COMES BEFORE WORK IS IN THE DICTIONARY
• YOU MISS 100% OF THE SHOTS YOU DON'T TAKE
• A MAN WITHOUT PLANS FOR HIS FUTURE WILL ALWAYS RETURNS TO HIS PAST
• GREAT THINGS ALWAYS FALL JUST OUTSIDE YOUR COMFORT ZONE
• SEEK RESPECT NOT ATTENTION, IT LASTS LONGER
• GREAT THINGS DON'T EVER COME FROM COMFORT ZONES
• DECIDE WHERE YOU WANT TO BE AND DON'T STOP UNTIL YOU GET THERE
• ONLY A KING CAN ATTRACT A QUEEN AND ONLY A QUEEN CAN KEEP A KING FOCUSED
• YOU CAN EITHER BE THE MAN OR YOU CAN WORK FOR THE MAN
• I LOVE TO SHOP BUT I'M NOT BUYING YOUR BULLSHIT
• NO ALARM CLOCK NEEDED, MY PASSION WAKES ME UP
• THERE'S NO ELEVATOR TO SUCCESS, YOU HAVE TO TAKE THE STAIRS
• GRIND WHILE THEY SLEEP LEARN WHILE THEY PARTY LIVE LIKE THEY DREAM
• DON'T LIVE THE SAME YEAR 75 TIMES AND CALL IT A LIFE

5 Great Visual Studio Keyboard Shortcuts

Following are five of my favorite keyboard shortcuts in Microsoft Visual Studio.

1)Move Code Alt+Up/Down

This keyboard shortcut is new in Visual Studio 2013. If you put the cursor on a line of code and use the Alt+Up Arrow keys, the line of code you've selected moves up. If you use the Alt+Down Arrow keys, the line of code selected moves down.

2)Create Collapsible Region Ctrl+M+H/Ctrl+M+U

Chances are you've noticed the "+" and "-" symbols in the margins that let you collapse and expand your classes and functions. Did you know you can create your own collapsible regions? If you select a section of code and then use the key sequence Ctrl+M+H, you turn that region into a collapsible/expandable region. The key sequence Ctrl+M+U will remove the collapsible region. It doesn't delete the code, it just removes the icon that lets you expand and collapse.

3)Comment Code Block Ctrl+K+C/Ctrl+K+U

Whether it's because you're trying to track down a "but," or experimenting with code change, from time to time you'll want to comment and uncomment blocks of code. If you select a block of code and use the key sequence Ctrl+K+C, you'll comment out the section of code. Ctrl+K+U will uncomment the code.

4)Peek Definition Alt+F12

When you're going through your code and you want to examine the code in the method you're calling, many programmers will use the F12 key or the pop-up menu option Go To Definition. Go To Definition will navigate to the called method; however, many times you don't need to navigate to the code. Sometimes, you just want a quick look at the method. If you've installed Visual Studio 2013, there's a new keyboard shortcut -- Alt+F12 -- that will give you a preview of the method being called inline. You can use the Esc key to close the preview.

5)Navigate Forward/Backward Ctrl+–/Ctrl+Shift+–

When you have multiple files open at the same time, you might want a way to quickly move back and forth between two or three different locations in your code. If you've moved from one location to another you can use the keyboard sequence <Ctrl>+– to move to the previous location and then you can return using Ctrl+Shift+–.

Create XML using EXCEL

Many a time I have got question about how to create XML with excel, So I decided to add this into my blog. Hope this will help the readers.

step 1:
Create one schema file (A template that we will use to generate the xml).
Eg. (Save following lines in dataSchema.xml file)

Step 2:
Open your excel file containing the data.

CountryID	CountryName
1	India
2	Pak
3	Srilanka
4	China
5	Koria

Step 3:

Go to the Developer TAB, if it is not on the top then you need to enable it from (File > Option )

Step 4:

Click "Source" under XML.

It will open XML source panel, having two buttons at the bottom. Click "XML Maps...".

Step 5:

Click "Add" to the XML Maps window.

Step 6:

Select "dataSchema.xml" file that we created in Step 1

Click OK twice

Step 7:

In XML Source you can now see the TREE VIEW of your columns.

Step 8:

Drag and Drop each column to the first row of your data.

Step 9.

Click "Export" button in Developers > XML tab.

Step 10:

You can now save this file as XML and that's it. Done.