Ken Getz
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
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.Finalize() - Climbing Hills and Making Rules
Last updated: Wednesday, February 23, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2004 - September/October
Ken Getz' .Finalize() column.
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.Finalize() - Comparing Things
Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2004 - May/June
Ken Getz' .Finalize() column.
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.Finalize() - Elegant Isn't Always Best
Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2005 - January/February
Ken Getz Jan/Feb 05 Finalize Column
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.Finalize() - How Many Programmers Does it Take (or, the Bike Ride that Wasn't)?
Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2004 - March/April
March/April .Finalize() column.
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.Finalize() - Inheritance Is a Wonderful Thing
Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2003 - July/August
.Finalize() Column
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.Finalize() - Keeping Secrets
Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2004 - July/August
Ken Getz' .Finalize() column.
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.Finalize() - Knowing Where You Are
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2004 - January/February
Jan/Feb .Finalize() column
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.Finalize() - Making Sausages
Last updated: Thursday, February 21, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2004 - November/December
Ken Getz' .Finalize() column.
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.Finalize() - My Not-So-Evil Twin
Last updated: Thursday, February 21, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2006 - January/February
Ken Getz Finalize Column Jan/Feb 2006
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.Finalize() - Profiles from Afar
Last updated: Thursday, February 21, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2006 - November/December
Ken Getz November December 06 finalize column.
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.Finalize() - Summer Travel, Blueberries, and Data Binding
Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2003 - November/December
Nov/Dec .Finalize() column
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.Finalize() - The Living Language-Visual Basic 2005
Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2005 - July/August
Ken Getz - Finalize Column - July/August 2005
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.Finalize() - Wasting Energy, and Rotating Things
Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2006 - September/October
.Finalize() - Wasting Energy, and Rotating Things
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.Finalize() - What I've Learned: Airline Lavatories and Strings
Last updated: Thursday, February 21, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2003 - September/October
.Finalize() Column
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.Finalize(): Try and Ye Shall Succeed
Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2006 - May/June
May/June 06 Finalize Column
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.Finalize(): Are We There Yet?
Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2005 - May/June
Ken Getz - May/June 2005 Finalize column
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.Finalize(): Losing Weight, Again
Last updated: Thursday, February 21, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2006 - July/August
Ken Getz finalize column - July/Aug 06
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.Finalize(): Moving and Downsizing
Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2006 - March/April
Ken Getz Finalize Column Mar/April 06
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.Finalize(): Seek and Ye Shall Find: AutoComplete in Windows Forms 2.0
Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2005 - September/October
Finalize Column Sept/Oct 2005 Ken Getz
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.Finalize(): Stay Put. Understand Your Space
Last updated: Thursday, February 21, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2005 - March/April
Ken Getz Mar/Apr 05 Finalize COlumn
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.Finalize(): What Does That Beep Mean?
Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2005 - November/December
Ken Getz Nov/Dec 05 Finalize Column
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.Finalize():There’s a Time and Place for Everything
Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2007 - January/February
Ken Getz's Finalize column for Jan/Feb 07
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Beyond the Reach
Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2008 - July/August
July August 2008 .Finalize(): column by Ken Getz.
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Create a Custom DataGridView Column
Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2007 - July/August
Creating custom column types for the DataGridView control isn’t nearly as tricky as it once was.In this article, you’ll learn how to take advantage of inheritance to create your own bar graph column in a grid cell.
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Creating Web Sites with ASP.NET Whidbey
Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2004 - January/February, CODE Focus Magazine: 2003 - Vol. 1 - Issue 3 - Whidbey and Yukon PDC Special
ASP.NET Whidbey adds a huge number of productivity features and enhancements.Although it's still early in the development process, Paul and Ken dig in and start playing with some of the new features, passing along what they've found.
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E-mail Attachments on the Fly
Last updated: Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2007 - March/April
Ken Getz Mar/April Finalize column.
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From the CODE Magazine Mailbag
Last updated: Friday, February 22, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2008 - September/October
Ken Getz .Finalize() column for September/October 2008
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Guilty Pleasures and LINQ
Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2007 - November/December
Nov/Dec 2007 .Finalize Column() Ken Getz
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Harnessing the Sun
Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2008 - March/April
March/April 08 Finalize() article by Ken Getz
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Have It Your Way
Last updated: Saturday, January 18, 2020
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2008 - November/December
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Have It Your Way, Revisited
Last updated: Saturday, January 18, 2020
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2009 - January/February
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I Dreamt I Was a Mac, and then I Woke Up
Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2007 - May/June
Ken Getz Finalize Column - May/June 07
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My Nightmare, and an Apology
Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2007 - July/August
Ken Getz July/August 2007 .FINALIZE() column
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Printing Envelopes, and Lambda Expressions
Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2007 - September/October
.Finalize() column for Sept/Oct 2007
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Things Fall Apart
Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2008 - May/June
May/June 2008 .Finalize column by Ken Getz
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Visual Basic and Respect
Last updated: Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Published in: CODE Magazine: 2008 - January/February
Ken Getz Jan/Feb 08 FInalize article.