* Microsoft Developer Days
* Tuesday, September 12, 1995  8 AM - 5 PM
* Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, DC

** Sponsored by Microsoft, Dell, Wall Data, The Cobb Group, and ASUG.

This is all it takes to get the latest developments from Microsoft.
This coming Developer Days will spotlight these revolutionary 
Microsoft visual development tools:

  * Visual Basic  A VERY SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
  * Visual C++  Visual C++ 4.0 In-Depth: Reuse and Much More
  * Access for Windows 95  the latest scoop on this new release!
  * Visual FoxPro - version 3.0a break exciting new ground
    ...and much more!

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(Reg. price $75; your cost before August 11: $50)

Here's the Washington, DC Developer Days Technical Lineup

8:00 - 9:00 Registration and Breakfast

9:00 - 10:30 Developer Exchange: A mini=Trade Show. Tool vendors, 
training centers, developers, and more will be showing their wares. 
Vendors may sell product on site if they wish.

10:30 - 11:30 Live Satellite link to Redmond for some earth-shaking 
announcements about your favorite development tools.

11:30 - 12:30 Regional Director Technical Session: Features integrated 
messaging via demo of application or building of application using 
multiple tools, i.e. utilize Visual C++ to build an OLE control, drop 
in the VB container and actual utilize the control during building of 
an application

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch and Developer Exchange

2:00 - 3:15 Breakout Session One
3:15 - 4:30 Greakour Session Two
4:30 - 4:45 Comfort Break
4:45 - 6:00 Breakout Session Three

Breakout Tracks: A total of 9 Breakout sessions are available during 
the DevDay agenda, with 4 product sessions and one Case study featuring 
Windows World Open Finalists. Microsoft helps develop content, and 3rd 
Party presenters own the presentations.

All content will be developer and technical oriented. These are NOT 
sales presentation, topics are targeting migration, new product 
features, Client/Server development, OLE (controls and Automation) 
Enterprise Computing, "how to" and other technical issues.

Breakout Session Descriptions: 

VISUAL C++

**Session 1: Visual C++ 4. 0 In-Depth: Reuse and Much More

Speaker: Ronan Sorensen, Micro Modeling Associates Inc., Bethesda, MD

  Get an in-depth first look at how to make the most out of Visual 
C++ 4.0, including the productivity gains that come through reusing 
existing code as well as from writing new code. Many newly announced 
features will be discussed, including Visual C++ 4.0's support for 
quickly creating fast, powerful database applications through the 
new support for Data Access Objects.

**Session 2: Microsoft Foundation Class Library 4. 0 Under the Hood

Speaker: Don Awalt, CDR Consulting, Inc., Baltimore, MD

  Learn what's included in the newest release of the Microsoft 
Foundation Class Library, version 4.0. Content includes tips and 
tricks for programming with Data Access Objects classes, as well as 
enhancements in OLE and OLE Controls classes and new classes for 
creating OLE Controls Containers. Other topics include some previously 
undocumented API functions.

ACCESS FOR WINDOWS 95

**Session 1: What's New in Microsoft Access (for Visual Basic, 
Visual C++, and Office Developers)

Speaker: William Kelleher, Systems Environments Corp, Falls Church, VA

  Microsoft Access, Visual Basic, Visual C++, and Office all share 
the same database engine, known as Jet. Access for Windows 95 
includes a variety of capabilities that will be of interest to 
database developers working with any of these products. We'll look 
at these new capabilities, including the Table Analyzer Wizard, which 
helps developers split flat-file databases into multiple related 
tables; the Performance Analyzer Wizard, which looks at common 
mistakes in your database designs, and offers to correct them; and 
replication management, which allows you to schedule the synchronization 
of database changes between databases. We'll also discuss overall 
enhancements to Jet, & provide an overview of the developer features 
in Access for Win 95.

**Session 2: What's New for the Access Developer in Access 95

Speaker: Tracy Howard, Keiter Stephens Computer Services, Inc., 
Richmond, VA

  Designed for anyone interested in database development, and 
already familiar with Microsoft Access, this session will provide 
in-depth coverage of the new capabilities of Microsoft Access for 
Windows 95. We'll look at enhancements to forms building, the new 
integrated development environment provided by Visual Basic for 
applications, the new OLE controls model, Access as an OLE automation 
server, replication, replication management, and distributing 
applications with the new Access Developer's Toolkit for 
Windows 95. Also, a special section on migrating your existing 
Access applications to Access 95. Come and see the flexibility 
and power of Access 95.

Visual Basic 4.0

**Session 1: Visual Basic 4.0 Overview

Speaker: Mark Spenik, Manager, Client/Servertechnology, Keiter 
Stephens Computer Services, Inc., Richmond, VA

  This session will cover the exciting new foundation features 
in the soon-to-be released Visual Basic 4.0. Topics will include 
migrating Visual Basic 3.0 apps to Visual Basic 4.0 16-/32-bit, 
new OLE Controls including the very cool Windows 95 controls, 
Visual Basic 4.0 Add-ins, and building open, reusable objects.

**Session 2: Visual Basic 4. 0 Enterprise Edition

Speaker: Jonathan Zuck, Advanced Paradigms, Inc., Alexandria, VA

  This session will cover the advanced feature set of Visual Basic 4.0 
Enterprise Edition. Topics will include large team development with 
integrated Visual SourceSafe 4.0, advanced Client/Server application 
development, and 3-tier distributed application development.

Visual FoxPro 3.0

**Session 1: Object-Oriented Programming In Visual FoxPro 3.0

Speaker: John Petersen, Prosoft Systems International, Inc., Fairfax, 
VA

  Object-oriented programming (OOP) is a major new capability 
in Visual FoxPro. Used correctly, OOP can cut your development 
time dramatically and improve the quality and maintainability 
of your applications. This session will cover the principles and 
terminology of OOP, and focus on how it is implemented in VFP.

**Session 2: Client-Server and Visual FoxPro 3. 0

Speaker: Frank Grimberg, President, Prosoft Systems International, Inc., 
Fairfax, VA

  Visual FoxPro is a client-server product right out of the box. 
Learn how VFP fits into the client-server world, including two 
approaches to accessing back-end data: views and SQL pass-through. 
This session will focus on the Visual FoxPro features that make it 
an ideal client application

Developer Days is a live event being held simultaneously
in Boston, MA; Chicago, IL; Denver, CO; Ft. Lauderdale, FL;
Hartford, CT; London, England; Melbourne, Australia; 
Dallas, TX (at Windows World/Dallas); Minneapolis, MN;
New York, NY; Santa Clara, CA; Seattle, WA; So. California;
Toronto, Ontario; and (best of all) Washington, DC.