From: The Boston Access User's Group Subject: Access Day - Wednesday 8/17/05 Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 15:26:37 +0000 This is a reminder that Microsoft Access Day is this Wednesday 8/17/05. Location: Microsoft Corporation, 201 Jones Road, Waltham, MA 02451 (781) 487-6400 For directions and Map: http://www.microsoft.com/mscorp/info/usaoffices/newengland/waltham.mspx For additional information visit the Access Day web site: http://www.BostonAccessDay.com/ Here is the Agenda for Access Day: INTRODUCTION TO ACCESS ***************************************************************** Introduction To Access -- 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM Presented by: Dean Serrentino of Paradigm Information Systems, Inc. Get started building powerful database applications. See how to quickly and easily build Access forms and reports using built-in Wizards. We'll develop a comprehensive contact management application in just two and a half hours. INTERMEDIATE ACCESS ***************************************************************** Setting Access Options -- 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Presented by: Dean Serrentino of Paradigm Information Systems, Inc. Access has no shortage of setup options. During his presentation, Dean will demonstrate the effect of various Access options on your application. ***************************************************************** Access Trauma Center -- 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM Presented by: John Giuliano of Stone-Crowne Associates We'll spend three hours helping to debug, add enhancements, or make design recommendations. The audience is encouraged to bring in real world developer problems that need solving now. Bring your applications on floppy, CD, or Zip Disk. ACCESS DEVELOPER ***************************************************************** General Announcements and Forum -- 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM Presented by: John Giuliano of Stone-Crowne Associates Share information regarding upcoming events, Access bugs, add-on products, and anything else that affects the world of the Access developer. ***************************************************************** Using Multiple Instances Of The Same Form -- 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Presented by: John Giuliano of Stone-Crowne Associates We all know that the form object is actually a class. But how do you use this to your advantage as a developer? During this presentation, we look at ways that we can use multiple instances of forms (and subforms) in our applications. ***************************************************************** Working With Files In Access -- 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM Presented by: John Giuliano of Stone-Crowne Associates Even though our Access *.mdb files seem to do it all, every so often we need to do some file manipulation in our applications. In this session, we will look at file handling procedures available in VBA as well as Windows API’s that are available to us to do more. Some of the code methods we will look at: reading and writing text files, coping files, compacting other Access databases... and more. Next Month's Topics... Introduction To Table Design 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM To be announced... 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Access Trauma Center 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM General Announcements and Forum 6:00 PM - 6:30 PM Playing In The Jet Sandbox 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Draw Your Own Graphs In Access Reports 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM News and Announcements... We are looking for two or three people to be responsible for keeping us up to date with available downloads from Microsoft. Right now, we would like to find someone willing to kick the tires and report on the "Access 2003 Conversion toolkit". If you can help out, please contact John or Dean.