Detroit Area Fox User Group (DAFUG) presents:
"Customizing Vertical Market Apps"
By Cathy Pountney of Memorial Business Systems
Thursday, September 11, 2008

Southwest Fox 2008 Rehearsal

- "Customizing Vertical Market Apps" by Cathy Pountney

Writing a vertical market application can be very rewarding. You write one application, sell it numerous times, and sit back while the money rolls in. Well, that's the theory anyway. The reality is that often times, new clients want to buy your software, as long as you can change this one little thing. Managing custom code for various clients within your application can easily turn into a nightmare as your client base expands. This session shows you how to implement a customization methodology in your vertical market application that keeps your standard code independent from your custom code, yet have the two code bases play nice together.

You will learn:

* How to provide custom menu options
* How to implement companion tables for storing additional data
* How to customize existing forms and controls
* How to implement new forms and controls
* How to implement custom reports

- Open discussion and the other normal chatter of tips and tricks.
- Anything else people want to talk about.


Hope to see you there.
More DAFUG details at http://www.dafug.org

Agenda:
6:00 - 8:00 Presentation
8:00 - ? Food


Future Planned DAFUG Meetings and Speakers:
September 11, 2008 - "Customizing Vertical Market Apps" - Cathy Pountney
October 9, 2008 - "Extending the Sedna Data Explorer" - Rick Schummer
November 20, 2008 - TBD
December 11, 2008 - TBD

DAFUG meets on the second or third Thursday of the month (except for July).

Admission to DAFUG meetings will be granted free to anyone for 1 (one) meeting. After that you must either join the group (at the low cost of $30 a year, $15 for a half year) or you will be asked to pay $5 per meeting you attend. The $5 will grant you admission but no other rights or privileges of membership.

Rick Schummer, Secretary for DAFUG