From: The Boston Access User's Group Subject: Access Day - Wednesday 9/21/05 Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 18:09:19 +0000 This is a reminder that Microsoft Access Day is this Wednesday 9/21/05. 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 Table Design -- 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM Presented by: Dean Serrentino of Paradigm Information Systems, Inc. Learn the basics of designing and building Access tables. Dean explains how to leverage the power of the relational database model, while illustrating the importance of a solid design. He'll explain the different types of table relationships, and the role of each. Lastly, the table analyzer wizard will be demonstrated by splitting data from a single Excel spreadsheet into multiple Access tables. INTERMEDIATE ACCESS ***************************************************************** Simplify Access Development and Maintenance -- 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Presented by: Dean Serrentino of Paradigm Information Systems, Inc. Developers often plod through the development of an application, unknowingly working against themselves. In this session, Dean describes several simple techniques for easing development by using solid design principles, good programming practices, and developer documentation. ***************************************************************** Access Trauma Center -- 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM Presented by: John Giuliano of Stone-Crowne Associates We'll spend two 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. ***************************************************************** Playing in the Jet Sandbox -- 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Presented by: John Giuliano of Stone-Crowne Associates With Jet 4.0, Microsoft gave us the ability to beef up our Access security by giving the developer the ability to prevent potentially dangerous Visual Basic functions from running. After a short review of what and why, we will examine how we can use this ability in our custom applications. ***************************************************************** Draw Your Own Graphs in Access Reports -- 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM Presented by: John Giuliano of Stone-Crowne Associates Many of us have used graphing controls in Access to display a graphical view of data. In this presentation we look at how to use Access drawing objects to create our own custom graphs. Next Month's Topics... Introduction To Access 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM Intro. To VBA, Part 1 of 5 - The Development Environment 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 Working With Files In Access (postponed from August meeting) 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Talk To Other Access Databases 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM