Ken Getz is a senior consultant with MCW Technologies and splits his time between programming, writing, and training. He specializes in tools and applications written in Visual Studio .NET and Visual Basic. Ken is the author of the highly rated .Finalize() column in CoDe Magazine. He is also the co-author of several best-selling books, including Access 2002 Developer's Handbooks with Paul Litwin and Mike Gunderloy, Visual Basic Language Developer's Handbook with Mike Gilbert, and VBA Developer's Handbook with Mike Gilbert (Sybex). He co-wrote several training courses for Application Developer's Training Company (www.appdev.com ), including VB.NET, ASP.NET, Access 2000 and 97, Visual Basic 6, and Visual Basic 5 seminars. He has also recorded video training for AppDev covering VB.NET, ASP.NET, VB6, Access 2000, and Access 97. Ken is a frequent speaker at technical conferences and spoken often at Microsoft's Tech-Ed conference. Ken's also a technical editor for Access-VB-SQL Advisor magazine and a columnist for Informant Publications' asp.netPRO magazine.

Articles Authored

• .Finalize() - Climbing Hills and Making Rules
• .Finalize() - Comparing Things
• .Finalize() - Elegant Isn't Always Best
• .Finalize() - How Many Programmers Does it Take (or, the Bike Ride that Wasn't)?
• .Finalize() - Inheritance Is a Wonderful Thing
• .Finalize() - Keeping Secrets
• .Finalize() - Knowing Where You Are
• .Finalize() - Making Sausages
• .Finalize() - My Not-So-Evil Twin
• .Finalize() - Profiles from Afar
• .Finalize() - Summer Travel, Blueberries, and Data Binding
• .Finalize() - The Living Language-Visual Basic 2005
• .Finalize() - Wasting Energy, and Rotating Things
• .Finalize() - What I've Learned: Airline Lavatories and Strings
• .Finalize(): Try and Ye Shall Succeed
• .Finalize(): Are We There Yet?
• .Finalize(): Losing Weight, Again
• .Finalize(): Moving and Downsizing
• .Finalize(): Seek and Ye Shall Find: AutoComplete in Windows Forms 2.0
• .Finalize(): Stay Put. Understand Your Space
• .Finalize(): What Does That Beep Mean?
• .Finalize():There’s a Time and Place for Everything
• Beyond the Reach
• Create a Custom DataGridView Column
• Creating Web Sites with ASP.NET Whidbey
• E-mail Attachments on the Fly
• From the CODE Magazine Mailbag
• Guilty Pleasures and LINQ
• Harnessing the Sun
• Have It Your Way
• Have It Your Way, Revisited
• I Dreamt I Was a Mac, and then I Woke Up
• My Nightmare, and an Apology
• Printing Envelopes, and Lambda Expressions
• Things Fall Apart
• Transitioning Your Existing Access Applications to Access 2007
• Visual Basic and Respect

Contact Information:

• Phone: 561-881-7206