Finally, yes, CodePlex now supports Git! Git has been one of the top rated requests from the CodePlex community for some time: Admittedly, when we launched CodePlex, we never expected that at some point we would be running a source control system...

What is Mercurial? Mercurial is a distributed source control management system. For new projects created on CodePlex.com, you will be able to choose from either Team Foundation Server or Mercurial as your source control repository . To illustrate, in...

There’s ton of documentation out there on how to use Mercurial and its various clients. For this blog post, you’ll see me use a popular client called TortoiseHg. ( Hg is the chemical element symbol for Mercury, hence Tortoise ”Hg” in case you’re wondering...

[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! ...

CodePlex is now offering server support for SvnBridge, the tool that enables TortoiseSVN to talk to Team Foundation Server. Support for Subversion has been our number one requested feature, and by hosting SvnBridge, our users can now use their favorite...

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 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 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...

As I mentioned a month ago , we have been working on improving the overall experience for the CodePlex community. Today, I am happy to announce the release of CodePlex’s new look! Our goal was to refresh the look and feel of the site to a modern...

We just released beta 2 of the CodePlex Client . This release includes a number of notable features: Anonymous Access We shipped the server-side piece of anonymous access during last Monday's CodePlex deployment. Today's Beta 2 CodePlex Client (cpc.exe...

We have been busy the last several months working to improve the overall experience for the CodePlex community. We have been working through some of the top requested items, such as our big announcement last week enabling Git . Something that is not explicitly...

[Do you Tweet? Follow me on Twitter @matthawley ] We deployed the latest version of CodePlex software today. This release changes how the Patches feature works for Mercurial based projects by replacing it with Forks. A Fork is a branch of the project...

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...

On Saturday, July 4, 2009 at 2pm, CodePlex surpassed the 10,000 project mark just shortly after our 3 year anniversary. Congrats to SharpFitter , a Visual Studio 2008 C# Add-in that dynamically loads plug-ins, for being our 10,000th project. We hope to...

Last Friday, we deployed the latest version of the CodePlex software. Project Job Openings Project owners can now post “job openings” for what sort of help they are looking for. This feature allows people who are interested in joining a project a way...

[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...

A common theme we've heard from our users is the desire to be able to work offline (in the "edit-merge-commit" style) when working on their CodePlex projects. Six months ago, we started working to write such a client that would integrate with our existing...

Over the past 24 hours, it was brought to our attention that one of the Microsoft projects hosted on CodePlex did not publish its source code.  As a result, we removed the project.  We’re working with the project owner to find the right release...

On Thursday last week, we deployed the latest version of the CodePlex software. Introducing the release of WikiPlex WikiPlex, our wiki engine, is now available as an open source project on CodePlex under the Microsoft Public License at http://wikiplex...

[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...

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...

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...

[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...

A couple of weeks ago, I attended CodeMash 2009 in Sandusky, Ohio -  my second time attending as Program Manager for CodePlex. The first year, I spent 2 days sitting non-stop with project owners and site visitors, collecting feedback about the site...

[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...