Microsoft organizes at April 27, 28 and 29 the Dutch Techdays in The Hague. Already for 14 years this is the biggest Microsoft event in The Netherlands where you get the chance to get up to speed with the latest technology with speakers all over the world. I have the pleasure to provide you with two sessions this year:

At the DevDays Pre-conference four ALM experts from the Dutch region help you understand how to adopt and improve your agile practices for greater productivity and higher quality applications. The topics for the day are:

• Adopting SCRUM
• Improve the developer workflow
• Adopting Continous Integration
• Agile testing

My second session, LAB Management in de Praktijk , is about one of the features in Visual Studio ALM a lot of people are not aware of, which is called Lab Management. In the Dutch edition of the .NET magazine, I already gave the first sneak peak into the product. In the session I will dive deeper in the product and show you how you can create your templates and your test environments. I also show you how you can execute the tests on these environments and how you can incorporate it in Team Build.

As a speaker you have the advantage to attend other sessions as well. The sessions I really look forward to are:

• Entity Framework in de Praktijk (Pieter de Bruin)
• Introduction to Visual Studio Lightswitch (Beth Massi)
• Building Robust, Maintainable Coded UI Tests with Visual Studio 2010 (Brian Keller)
• CQRS op Windows Azure (Tijmen van de Kamp)
• Using SharePoint Search to Develop Custom Solutions (Mirjam van Olst)
• Application Performance on Windows Phone 7 (Caspar Ruhe)

Have fun at the Techdays, and hopefully we have a chance to meet each other.