In this release, the CodePlex team made improvements to the source browsing URLs. Now, when you navigate to the source browsing page, the provided URL will always point to the latest version of the file! Here is an example of the new URL: http://typescript...

In this week’s deployment, the CodePlex team made the following improvements: The column widths on the advanced issue tracker page has been improved. The word wrapping for commit messages was improved. Kudos to Taoyue A bug related to...

In this release, we added a new “reason closed” feature. Now when you close an issue, you can specify the reason that the issue was closed. This allows you to inform your users and team members why you are closing the issue (duplicate, fixed...

In this week’s deployment, the CodePlex team fixed several bugs across the site. A couple notable improvements are: If a user replies to a discussion through email, we now strip out the email headers on the discussion page. We improved...

In this release, the CodePlex team enabled Azure Web Sites deployment for Mercurial projects. Now you can continuously deploy to Azure Web Sites from CodePlex for both Mercurial and Git projects. To enable this feature, go to your Azure Websites' dashboard...

This week, the CodePlex team responded to a couple pain points expressed by our users. Notable improvements are: The download service is now much more reliable Discussions and issues will now render 100% of the time Errors when adding new...

This week, the CodePlex team made several improvements across the site. A couple noteworthy changes are: F# syntax highlighting is now supported in both source browsing and code snippets. Huge thanks to LukeH for helping with this! A user who...

In this release, the CodePlex team made improvements to the issue tracker. Two notable changes are: In an effort to reduce clutter on the issue page, fields that have a value of “unassigned” are now hidden from the view. The impact...

The CodePlex team added syntax highlighting to our markdown editor. Now, if you specify the language of a codeblock, the appropriate highlighting will be applied as seen below: The supported languages are: XML Java JavaScript TypeScript...

This week the CodePlex team made several improvements across the site. A couple noteworthy changes are: Replying to a discussion thread through email will now have the expected behavior and formatting Resolved an issue that would cause intermittent...

In this release, the CodePlex team added keyboard shortcuts to the markdown editor. The commands are as follows: CTRL + B -> Bold CTRL + I -> Italics CTRL + O -> Numbered List CTRL + U -> Bulleted List CTRL + L -> Hyperlink...

Brian Harry made two major announcements today at the ALM Summit. Visual Studio will support Git Team Foundation Server will host Git repositories. When we added Git to CodePlex back in March of last year a missing piece, for many customers...

We now support markdown in our discussion editor! If you are new to markdown, you can learn more about it from our previous blog post on the topic. A couple other notable changes are: Editing and replying to discussions on iPads and iPhones is now...

We added formatting buttons to our markdown editor! Now, if you are trying to learn markdown or you just forgot the syntax for a hyperlink, you can click the formatting buttons, and the proper markdown syntax will be added to the text. The supported markdown...

The CodePlex team has been working hard to improve our TFS cluster, and it is now running much faster! The improvements will increase reliability and performance of source browsing, issue tracking, project creation, and team management for TFS projects...

We are very excited to announce that CodePlex now supports markdown in our issue tracker! If you are not familiar with markdown, it is a simple markup language used for text formatting. A brief overview can be found by clicking the "Markdown Help" link...

MyGet is a pretty cool service that allows you to host your own NuGet feed. During the holidays the team at MyGet enabled integration with CodePlex. MyGet announced their public beta of a build service for NuGet packages back in October. With this...

This past week the CodePlex team worked on several fixes to improve the stability of our TFS infrastructure, including applying TFS 2012 Update 1. We apologize for the recent downtime. We are not completely out of the woods, but we appreciate your patience...

Over the last week the CodePlex team fixed several bugs throughout the site. Several notable changes were: Fixed several UI issues related to the recent action bar changes Fixed the issue related to double posting when responding to a discussion...

This week we wrapped up a set of work to improve the actions and navigation within the project tabs. Now each tab in a project has a more consistent interaction experience. The navigation and filter activities are on the left side and action based links...

The CodePlex team deployed a few times over the last week. Below is a roll-up of changes: Fixed issue with being able add additional commits to pull requests - Thanks to Oren Novotny Fixed problem with issue summaries breaking within words -...

Today's deployment is mostly focused on bug fixes across the site. Bugs in the source browsing, pull request, download management and issue tracker were addressed. Have ideas on how to improve CodePlex? Please visit our suggestions page ! Vote for...

Below are the release notes from this week's deployment. Improvements and Bug Fixes Fixed issue with some Mercurial projects showing duplicate branch names within the branch drop-down. Several bug fixes and UI tweaks to the new source browsing...

Below are the release notes from this week's deployment. Improvements and Bug Fixes Updated the Source browsing to fixed width and full browser height. The source browsing experience now defaults to the fixed width layout. But, if you really...

Below are the release notes from this week's deployment. Improvements and Bug Fixes Added the Action Bar to the project home and documentation tabs. CodePlex now 100% ASP.NET MVC (bye bye Web Forms). Updated publish project banner to improve...