We will be conducting in-person usability studies for CodePlex.com in Seattle, Washington on October 13 and 14, 2009. We are looking for project owners on CodePlex to participate in the one hour usability study. Whether you own one project or multiple...

update 2 dec 2008: The Town Hall video can be found at http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Dan/CodePlex-Town-Hall-at-PDC-2008/ PDC 2008 was the first time we had a CodePlex-branded booth, and it was the first time we did a CodePlex Town Hall. I was very...

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...

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...

Do you have a passion for open source and want to help shape the direction of the CodePlex project? Do you love delivering customer-focused products? Interested in working with a small, high performance team in an agile environment? If so, then maybe...

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...

Update 24 Sept 2008: Slides are now posted. Sorry for the delay. Last week, I spoke at the Microsoft ReMix08 UK conference in Brighton, England on CodePlex and on Visual Studio Tips and Tricks. You can read more about the conference overall, the extensive...

Teamprise has announced they are now offering free licenses to CodePlex users. Teamprise is a multi-platform client you can use for source control that runs on Windows, Linux, or the Macintosh and supports integration with Eclipse. You can read more...

Since I announced Rawr as the project of the month after nearly a week went by in March, we decided to make Rawr ( http://rawr.codeplex.com ) the project for April. And I have to be honest that I haven’t carved out the time that I’ve wanted to work on...

We had many requests for URL rewriting support, and although we didn't do a full implementation in the current release, we did add support for short URLs for project home pages. You can link to your project's home page through: http://www.codeplex.com...

Here are the notes for today’s release: Added a progress indicator when saving issues. Added support for viewing CodePlex RSS feeds in Chrome. Deployed several bug fixes: Fixed an issue where the back button on Internet Explorer was not working as intended...

As announced this week , two licenses from Microsoft, the Microsoft Public License (previously known as the Microsoft Permissive License) and the Microsoft Reciprocal License (previously known as the Microsoft Community License), were approved by the...

We are pleased to announce that any registered user can now immediately start a new project! This was actually one of the changes in our new version of CodePlex released on January 30th. Creating a new project can now be done by any registered user...

We haven't deployed in about 6 weeks, because this deployment includes a rather sizeable rewrite of the issue tracking system that took us longer than our normal 3 week deployments. We used AJAX to improve the usability of the site in selected places...

We have 110 user votes covered in this deployment, plus a whole bucket-full of tweaks, bug fixes, and little improvements. Here are a few of the changes: The default font for the site is now Segoe UI. I think it looks much more streamlined as a result...

Today was another deployment day for us. This release of the CodePlex software introduces some new, small features across the board, along with some general bug fixes. Release Development Status Project coordinators can now label their releases in their...

A big year for politics as the elections just finished. You may or may not have noticed that the same day was our latest CodePlex release which includes ... (drumroll) ... voting on items in the issue tracker! Honestly, the timing of the voting feature...

We release a new version of CodePlex every three weeks, so new features become available to users on a regular basis. I wanted to highlight a couple of new features for project owners we have added recently that you may not have noticed: Project Logo...

Thanks to everyone who stopped by the CodePlex booth to chat with us. We really appreciated the opportunity to share what we’re doing with CodePlex and to get your feedback and to answer questions. We had a great turnout for the “Embrace Open Source on...

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...

Want to showcase your CodePlex project or your favorite CodePlex project at PDC? Channel 9 and CodePlex are sponsoring a CodePlex Community Meetup  in the Channel 9 lounge area. We’re looking for volunteers to give 5 minute demos of their projects...

We have job openings for developers to join the CodePlex team! If you would be interested in helping us continue to improve CodePlex to make it an outstanding open source project hosting site then check out this link: http://members.microsoft.com/careers...

The CodePlex team will be at the MVP Summit - Communities Side Session at the Sheraton on Thursday afternoon.  We're hoping that all MVPs who use CodePlex will be able to swing by for some CodePlex swag, new feature demos, and feature suggestions...

As Jim has already reported , votes had a huge impact on the work we did in our recent February 20th deployment. We addressed 220 customer votes worth of feature and bug requests with this deployment. Even though the deployment was just a few days ago...

Sara Ford, our CodePlex Program Manager, recently appeared on .NET Rocks episode #296 which featured an open source panel discussion held at the DevTeach developer conference in Vancouver, BC. Sara Ford and three other panelists discuss open source and...