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In cooperation with Microsoft, join JetBrains’ Hadi Hariri for the free online event, Refactoring Legacy Code Bases using Microsoft Visual Studio and ReSharper. The session is intended for architects, designers and professional developers.

Refactoring Legacy Code Bases
Wednesday, May 8, 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Pacific Time (GMT-08:00)

Not everyone has the possibility of working on Greenfield projects or doing TDD or BDD. Many of us often end up having to work with legacy code bases that have little notion of what SOLID design principles are and unit tests are non-existent. It can be daunting to have to maintain these types of systems. However, with a little bit of effort, we can try and make the best of the situation. We can combine some well-known refactoring techniques, along with code analysis and design concepts to improve the quality of the code.

Registration is required to attend. We hope to see you there!

On Tuesday, April 9th, we held a free webinar with Hadi Hariri and C# legend Jon Skeet. The concept was simple enough: to play with some of the most sophisticated ReSharper code inspections and have Jon try to break ReSharper with tricky code samples.

The recording of this webinar is embedded below and can be found directly on YouTube and JetBrains.tv. The examples used are also available for download.

We would like to thank all of the webinar attendees for your participation, questions and tremendous turnout and of course to Jon, thank you for taking your time to join us and share your wealth of knowledge!

About This Webinar:

Jon Skeet, man, father, legend. Some call him the Chuck Norris of C#. The guy that the compiler bends to obey joins us for this webinar to walk us through some of the inspections that ReSharper offers. He explains the theory behind it, tells us whether he agrees with it or not and does his best to try and break ReSharper. You can follow Jon on Twitter @jonskeet.

Jon Skeet, man, father, legend. Some call him the Chuck Norris of C#. The guy that the compiler bends to obey is going to join us for this webinar to walk us through some of the inspections that ReSharper offers. He’ll explain the theory behind it, tell us whether he agrees with it or not and will do his best to try and break ReSharper. Join us for what will definitely be a fun and educating webinar.

This free webinar will take place Tuesday, April 9th from 19:00 – 20:00 CET (Central European Time). Space is limited; please register now.

About Jon Skeet
Jon is a Java developer for Google in London, but he plays with C# (somewhat obsessively) in his free time. He loves writing and talking about C# and the second edition of “C# in Depth” was published in November 2010. Writing less formally, Jon spends a lot of time on Stack Overflow… where “a lot” is an understatement. Give him a puzzle about how C# behaves which gets him reaching for the language specification, and Jon is a happy bunny. Jon lives in Reading, England with his wife and three children.

The JetBrains Team is on the road again continuing alongside Microsoft TechDays tour for stops in Belgium and the Netherlands. Join top international and local speakers discussing the hot topics of the day including Windows 8, Visual Studio 2012, Windows Azure, Windows Phone 8, HTML5 and much more.

At both locations we will have a booth where you will learn about the latest developments around JetBrains .NET tools. A friendly team will be ready to answer your questions and share some tips.

TechDays Belgium, March 5-7 at Kinepolis, Antwerp

TechDays Belgium is a three day event featuring 80 different sessions and attracting 2,000+ visitors. On March 5th there will be a pre-conference with 4 tracks including 2 for developers and 2 for IT professionals. The main conference will take place March 6th and 7th. We would like to invite you to our session with JetBrains Evangelist, Maarten Balliauw.

TechDays Netherlands, March 7-8 at World Forum, The Hague

TechDays Netherlands is an annual two day Microsoft Conference for software developers and IT professionals. This year there will be 160 sessions highlighting innovation on the Microsoft Platform. Stop by our booth to learn how JetBrains .NET tools can help you become more productive.

Get a taste of the action in this video by George Dvorak filmed at TechDays France.

GOTO Conferences have been running in Europe for more than 16 years and this will be the first GOTO Conference in the United States. GOTO Chicago is set to take place April 23-26 in downtown Chicago and includes 2 Training Days and 2 Conference days featuring 30+ speakers.

JetBrains is a sponsor of GOTO Chicago, and Hadi Hariri, Technical Evangelist from JetBrains, will be presenting and training at the event.

Register today and save $150 on the conference pass (promo code: hari150)

In the recording of this unscripted January 24th webinar, Hadi Hariri and Julie Lerman join forces to help you understand how to do Entity Framework Code First while enjoying the benefits of ReSharper. The webinar recording is available on JetBrains.tv and YouTube.

Here is a bit more background on how this webinar came about…

When Hadi tried to create an Entity Framework app, he realized just how bad of a noob he really was. He then decided to call on a favor to Julie, the Data Farm Queen. As Julie was teaching Hadi, he kept interrupting her to tell her about easier ways to do things using ReSharper. That’s when they decided to stop right there and make the whole thing public. Julie would teach Hadi EF and he would in exchange show her some tips on how ReSharper could help with coding.

To stay abreast with the latest happenings of our hosts and guest, follow them and JetBrains on Twitter: Hadi Hariri, Julie Lerman and Dmitri Nesteruk.

Catch up with the JetBrains Team February 12-14th at Palais des Congrès in Paris for Microsoft TechDays France. This massive conference is one of the most important IT events in Europe featuring 300+ sessions, 140 exhibitors and attracting some 17,500 visitors over 3 days! If you are not lucky enough to attend, you can join 30,000 others and tune in online with TechDays TV.

We invite you to stop by our booth and meet with Maarten Balliauw, Dmitri Nesteruk and George Dvorak who will all be on hand to answer your questions and show off the latest and greatest JetBrains product developments. To learn more about your transportation options in getting to the event, continue here.

We look forward to meeting you there!

When Hadi tried to create an Entity Framework app, he realized just how bad of a noob he really was (not surprising). He then decided to call on a favor to Julie, the Data Farm Queen. As Julie was teaching Hadi, he kept interrupting her to tell her about easier ways to do things using ReSharper. That’s when they decided to stop right there and make the whole thing public. Julie would teach Hadi EF and he would in exchange show her some tips on how ReSharper could help with coding. Seems like a win-win situation. What could possibly go wrong?

In this webinar, you’ll join Hadi in understanding how to do Entity Framework Code First while at the same time see what benefits ReSharper offers and how to use it efficiently. Well…that’s the plan anyway.

This free webinar will take place Thursday, January 24th from 16:00 – 17:00 CET (Central European Time). Space is limited; please register now.

Julie Lerman is a Microsoft MVP, .NET mentor and consultant who lives in the hills of Vermont. You can find Julie presenting on Entity Framework and other Microsoft .NET topics at user groups and conferences around the world. Julie blogs at thedatafarm.com/blog, is the author of the highly acclaimed “Programming Entity Framework” books, the MSDN Magazine Data Points column and popular videos on Pluralsight.com. Follow Julie on twitter at julielerman.

Øredev 2012 was chock-full with 157 sessions over five days and we enjoyed every minute! We had the opportunity to meet many of our users who took the time to stop by for a conversation and to ask many great questions. To show our appreciation for your support, we are happy to announce the winners of the Øredev raffle who can choose a free personal license for any JetBrains product (or its upgrade).

The winners are…

• Orjan Horpestad
• Peter Gade Jewsew
• Martin Sandin

• Mikael Karlsson
• Jonas Ekedahl

If your name is on the list above, we will contact you shortly with detailed instructions on how to claim your license. Congratulations to the winners and thank you to all of our supporters. We hope to meet as many of you as possible at the great events slated for 2013!

The webinar recording of the October 24th session, Increase Visual Studio Productivity with ReSharper and ViEmu is now available on JetBrains.tv and YouTube. Learn how to use increase your coding productivity within Microsoft Visual Studio using ReSharper and ViEmu in this joint webinar showcase presented by James Kovacs.

For your convenience we have provided the slide deck for download that also includes the ViEmu learning resources below.

• vi/vim graphical cheat sheet
• vimtutor - Install vim and run ‘vimtutor’
• @vimtips

Thanks to our webinar attendees and stay tuned for future sessions.