On March 13 there is an Application Platform Optimization conference in the Netherlands. Clemens, Marcel and I will talk about Visual Studio Team System 2010 in the development track on testing, architecture and work item tracking respectively. The other tracks are data management/business intelligence and SOA/business process. The conference day before will be focused on the same topics but is intended for managers and technical decision makers. Even though the agenda is not complete yet, it looks to be a promising event with presentations by:

• Kevin Ashby - Enterprise Platform Modernization, Microsoft
• Ofer Ashkenazi - Sr. Technical Product Manager, Microsoft
• Sam Guckenheimer - Group Product Planner Visual Studio Team System, Microsoft

New versions of my favorite products are being released later this year: BizTalk 2009 and Visual Studio Team System 2010. Obviously I am very excited to see interesting Microsoft speakers make it to the conference. If you can not wait to learn more about Visual Studio Team System 2010 below are a few links where you can get to know the product a little more:

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/VisualStudio/Visual-Studio-Team-System-2010-Week-on-Channel-9/ 
http://channel9.msdn.com/VisualStudio/
http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4/

Later next month I am presenting at Software Developer Network event. That talk will be on the Application Architecture Guide 2.0 which I discussed in a recent post.