From: The Boston Access User's Group Subject: Access Day - Wednesday 5/17/06 Date: Thursday, May 11, 2006 18:14:38 This is a reminder that Microsoft Access Day is this Wednesday 5/17/06. 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/ News and Announcements... Congratulations to Teresa DeLuca, who has taken on the task of Group Event Coordinator. If you would like to present at one of our developer meetings, please contact Teresa via the group web site at http://bostonaccessday.com/sched_new.cfm. We are always looking for talented developers to round out our schedule. BAUG has officially been accepted as a member INETA (International .NET Association). A thank you goes out to Teresa DeLuca, who spearheaded the effort. As a member of INETA, we hope to solicit presenters from their ranks to speak at our meetings. The consensus seems to be that three hours is too long for the Trauma Center. We are currently appealing to the membership for ideas to fill the 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm time slot. Some suggestions so far... -Working with Access Data Projects (.adp files) and SQL server -Reviving the Access add-in project -Application re-design/Specification development If you have any suggestions, please voice them at the May meeting next week, or contact either Dean Serrentino or John Giuliano via the group web site at http://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 next few months, we will architect and build a functioning Access application to perform a very specific task. Last month we itemized business rules and began building a user interface for our shellfish tracking application. In this session, we'll continue developing our user interface. ***************************************************************** 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. ***************************************************************** Introduction to ASP.Net 2.0 -- 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Presented by: Russ Ganz of Desktop Access Systems ASP.Net 2.0 offers tremendous enhancements in functionality and ease of use. Russ will present an overview of developing data driven web applications using ASP.Net 2.0 with the Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition, which is a free product that is remarkably feature rich. ***************************************************************** Using Access to Manage Photos -- 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM Presented by: John Clark of Vela Ventures John demonstrates a technique for displaying a series of property photos as part of a demo application for real estate sales that he is currently developing. His presentation will include organization of the data; display to the buyer; data entry forms used by the real estate agent; and DAO coding methods.