We have been a bit quiet on this blog recently, but rest assured we are planning some exciting features and changes to the CodePlex site! One change we are making is switching to a weekly release schedule so that we can respond and iterate on user feedback...

[Do you tweet? Follow us on Twitter @matthawley and @ codeplex ] We deployed a new version of the CodePlex website yesterday. Redesigned Home Page with Activity Stream In CodePlex we continuously look for ways to provide our users with the most...

[Do you tweet? Follow us on Twitter @matthawley and @ codeplex ] We deployed a new version of the CodePlex website yesterday. AppHarbor In CodePlex, we continue to look for ways to enhance our project hosting offering by partnering with other...

We recently conducted a survey of open source developers to learn about their current preferences on hosting sites and source control systems. We have run this survey twice before so we now have some trending information on the direction that preferences...

Stack Overflow Careers is an innovative new job site for programmers. One thing they have recognized is that participation in open source projects is a great way for potential employers to learn more about a job candidate, and also give developers a new...

[Do you tweet? Follow us on Twitter @matthawley and @ codeplex ] We deployed a new version of the CodePlex website yesterday. Pull Request Listing We now provide the ability to view a history of all of the pull requests that have been sent...

The .NET segment of the open source ecosystem has been one of the fastest growing over the last few years.  The vast majority of all projects on CodePlex are .NET related, and among .NET developers CodePlex is generally the most well-known open source...

The Visual Studio team just recently released the beta of the OData Service for Team Foundation Server 2010 . Check out the announcement here . To help get customer feedback, they made the service available to all CodePlex TFS users here: https://codeplexodata...

[Do you tweet? Follow us on Twitter @matthawley and @ codeplex ] We deployed a new version of the CodePlex website yesterday. Pull Request Diff Notes In a continuation of the pull request conversations feature that we added in our March release...

[Do you tweet? Follow us on Twitter @matthawley and @adacole_msft ] We deployed a new version of the CodePlex website today. Pull Request Conversations Previously, the only way for project members and users who submitted pull requests to converse was...

[Do you tweet? Follow us on Twitter @matthawley and @adacole_msft ] We deployed a new version of the CodePlex website today. Pull Request Changes In this release, we have begun to re-focus on Pull Requests to ensure a productive experience between the...

[Do you tweet? Follow us on Twitter @matthawley and @adacole_msft ] We deployed a new version of the CodePlex website last week. Profile Picture Thumbnails We have added a way to select a thumbnail from your profile picture, which will start appearing...

We recently conducted a survey of open source developers to learn about their current preferences around hosting sites and source control systems. The survey was primarily advertised via Twitter, and we tried to avoid pushing the survey among audiences...

[Do you tweet? Follow us on Twitter @matthawley and @adacole_msft ] We deployed the latest version of the CodePlex software yesterday. Keyboard Shortcuts With this release, we have added a set of keyboard shortcuts for common tasks in the Issue Tracker...

[Do you tweet? Follow us on Twitter @matthawley and @adacole_msft ] We deployed the latest version of the CodePlex software last week. But, before we get into the new functionality… Welcome our new Program Manager, Ada Cole Hello, CodePlex users! ...

The Microsoft CodePlex.com team has donated $25,000 to the Mercurial project, responding to the recent appeal by the project leader , Matt Mackall. Earlier this year we added Mercurial as a choice on CodePlex to provide an option to our users to use a...

[Do you tweet? Follow me on Twitter @matthawley ] We deployed the latest version of the CodePlex software yesterday. Windows Live Writer Support With this release, we have implemented our #1 project feature request, Updating Wiki Pages with Windows...

[Do you tweet? Follow me on Twitter @matthawley ] We deployed the latest version of the CodePlex software today. WYSIWYG Wiki Editor With this release, we have enabled the ability for project members to edit their wiki pages in either the Wiki Markup...

[Do you tweet? Follow me on Twitter @matthawley ] We deployed the latest version of the CodePlex software today. Support for ClickOnce Releases With today’s release, we are happy to announce that our #1 most requested feature, hosting ClickOnce applications...

[Do you tweet? Follow me on Twitter @matthawley ] The information in this entry applies to project coordinators and developers that are using TFS with the Team Explorer client. If you are using Mercurial or a Subversion client, then nothing will change...

[Do you tweet? Follow me on Twitter @matthawley ] We deployed the latest version of the CodePlex software today. Project Openings Enhancements With today’s release, CodePlex users now have the ability to search for project openings across all projects...

[Do you tweet? Follow me on Twitter @matthawley ] We deployed the latest version of the CodePlex software today. Multiple Project Downloads With today’s release, CodePlex users now have the ability to set multiple default releases for their project. The...

[Do you tweet? Follow me on Twitter @matthawley ] We deployed the latest version of the CodePlex software today. Application Analytics With today’s release, CodePlex users now have the ability to instrument their applications to get analytics on their...

[Do you tweet? Follow me on Twitter @matthawley ] We deployed the latest version of the CodePlex software today. Upgraded to .NET 4 While normally we wouldn’t mention an infrastructure upgrade, we decided that with the recent launch of .NET 4, our more...

[Do you Tweet? Follow me on Twitter @matthawley ] We deployed the latest version of the CodePlex software today. Windows Live™ ID Support The #2 requested feature for CodePlex has been to support logging in using your Windows Live™ ID account. We’re happy...