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 coauthor of several best-selling books, including "Access 2002 Developer's Handbook" 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 cowrote several training courses for Application Developer's Training Company (www.appdev.com), including seminars for VB.NET, ASP.NET, Access 2000 and 97, and Visual Basic 6 and 5. He has also recorded video training for AppDev, covering VB.NET, ASP.NET, Visual Basic 6, and Access 2000 and 97. Ken is a frequent speaker at technical conferences and has 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.