From: The Boston Access User's Group Subject: Access Day - Wednesday 7/19/06 Date: Thursday, July 13, 2006 07:58:12 This is a reminder that Microsoft Access Day is this Wednesday 7/19/06. 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 ***************************************************************** A Case Study in Application Development -- 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Presented by: Dean Serrentino of Paradigm Information Systems, Inc. Over the past few months, we've designed and began building a functioning Access application to perform a very specific task. Our application tracks the distribution of shellfish to restaurants and retail locations. In this session, we'll continue with development of our user interface. ***************************************************************** Access Trauma Center -- 3:00 PM - 5:00 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 ***************************************************************** Introduction To SQL Server -- 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Presented by: John Giuliano of Stone-Crowne Associates In this session, we will work exclusively with SQL Server 2005 and the tools that are available to manage it. The focus of this series is to enable Access developers to design client-server applications using Access as the user interface. ***************************************************************** 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. ***************************************************************** A Look at Microsoft Access 2007 -- 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM Presented by: Robert Holmes Robert will discuss the new release of Access with an emphasis on new features, such as XML, as well as how best to access existing features. There will be some discussion in particular of how to manipulate the new ribbon paradigm. He will then delve into interactaction with other products in the Office line, and the Common Language Runtime (CLR). The Office 2007 beta release is now available at http://www.microsoft.com/office /preview/default.mspx, so please bring your questions. If you are interested in making a presentation at an Access Developer's meeting, please contact our Event Coordinator Teresa DeLuca via the Boston Access Day web site at http://bostonaccessday.com/sched_new.cfm