JetBrains .NET Tools Blog

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)

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!

JetBrains is in London next week for DevWeek and it’s a great opportunity to have an informal meetup with our users and friends over a few drinks.

So, we’ll be sponsoring some beer injections and snacks on the 29th of March. All you have to do is show up. Since the venue has limited places however, we do need you to register beforehand.

It will be held at the Fence in Farringdon, which is within walking distance from the Barbican Center where DevWeek is held. Starts at 6:30, after the conference.

You don’t have to be present at DevWeek to attend. This is open to anyone that registers.

Hurry up as the number of places are limited and they are going fast!

For the 3rd year in a row, we are going to NDC!

NDC is one of those conferences that includes different topics and technologies. There’s a good mix of .NET, JavaScript, Ruby, Java and general Architecture and Process related talks. As such, it’s a great fit for JetBrains. This year we have a bigger booth and more things to show you.

We’ll have Eugene from TeamCity team there. If you want to learn more about what’s new in TeamCity 6.5 or the upcoming features we are working on for NuGet support, it’s your chance to pick his brains. Ruslan, from the dotCover team will also be there, showing off the latest and greatest in dotCover 1.1, as well as Valery who can help you with any and all questions related to YouTrack! And with the upcoming release of version 3, you’ll really want to check it out!

We’re also lucky enough to coincide with not one, not two, but three! Academy Members at this conference: Udi Dahan, Sebastian Lambla and Donald Belcham. I’ll be there also, giving two talks: one on dealing with legacy code and another on Dynamic in a static world. The rest of the time you can find me at the booth.

We are also looking into potentially have a Ninja Workshop on Tips and Tricks for ReSharper. This was prompted by a conversation some of us were having on Twitter, and after running an informal poll, quite a bit of interest was shown. It’s still under talks to see if it will be possible. However, I do ask, whether you’ve already replied on Twitter or this is the first time you’ve heard about it, if we were to hold this (probably one hour) session during a time where it does not overlap with other sessions, would you be interested in attending? If so, please leave a comment here. Please note that nothing is definite yet so it might not go ahead (although we’re hoping it will).

See you there!

On Tuesday, 5th April 2011, I’ll be giving a webinar (in Spanish) on how to setup an environment with TeamCity, YouTrack and your favorite OSS tools and frameworks.

Things we’ll see:

• TeamCity: Overview and benefits
• YouTrack: Mouseless Web Issue Tracking
• Introduction to Distributed Version Control Systems and benefits over Centralized
• Creating Continuous Integration Processes with TeamCity and OSS stacks
• Integration with Visual Studio and other IDE’s

The webinar will be roughly 2 hours and it will be mostly demo-centric.

It is a completely free event. If you’d like to attend, please register here

JetBrains is a proud Silver Partner at the ScanDev Conference that takes place on April 4th and 5th in Göteberg, Sweden.

And like last year, we will have a booth there where representatives of TeamCity, YouTrack and ReSharper and .NET teams will be there to answer all your questions, and show you some of the great new things we are working on.

Make sure you stop by our booth. It will be great to say Hello!

On the 14th of March I’ll be doing a few sessions at the Bristol .NET Usergroup. It will be a talk focused on ReSharper and some of our other tools. For ReSharper we’ll see how to use it effectively for TDD, BDD as well as following standards across teams and detecting code smells using things such as Structural Search and Replace, advanced refactoring and code navigation. The talk is going to be exclusively inside Visual Studio. I’ll also cover some aspects of Code Coverage and showing alternative solutions to tools like TFS by combining the power and simplicity of TeamCity and YouTrack and Open Source software.

This is a completely free event, doors open to all and there is no registration required. The event starts at around 18:30 on 14th March. Meetings are held at:

University of the West of England (UWE)
Frenchay Campus, Coldharbour Lane,
Bristol, BS16 1QY (0117 965 6261).

We will be in room 2Q49 (in Q block). Remember, it’s the 14th of March, 18:00 – 18:30

You can find directions to the university at http://www.uwe.ac.uk/aboutUWE/campus/frenchay-directions.shtml. When you get to the university the guard can give you a map of the university to find Q block or you can find one at http://www.uwe.ac.uk/aboutUWE/campus/frenchay-map.shtml.

Park in Car Park 1 (and remember to bring a map to get to the room).

Last Friday, we held an Open Day in Munich, to celebrate the opening of our new offices in the city. It was an opportunity to get to know our users and the Developer community in the Munich area, as well as for our users to meet some of our developers face to face.

It was a great evening, where we talked about some of our existing tools, our upcoming plans, and in general just spending a laid back evening with everyone.

We’d like to extend a big thank you to all of you who came and hope that you enjoyed the gathering. Please know that our doors are always open.

We took a whole bunch of pictures from the night as well as our offices. To see them, please visit our Facebook page.

What is there to do in Sandusky, Ohio, in the middle of Winter with sub-zero temperatures and snow? Well CodeMash of course, which takes place from the 12th to the 14th of January.

JetBrains is not only Adamantium sponsor, but will also be there! We will have a booth and a vendor session where we’ll show some of the upcoming features in ReSharper 6 as well as some of our other tools.

I’d love to say that if you’ve not signed up to CodeMash, make sure you do, but it would be useless. They sold out on the 3rd day! So if you’re one of the lucky ones that has a ticket, please stop by and say hello!

Our vendor Session will be on Thursday from 3 pm. I’ll also be doing a session on CouchDB on Thursday at 4:50 pm.

This is the first of a series of great events planned for 2011, so stay tuned!

Happy New Year!