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...

[Do you Tweet? Follow me on Twitter @matthawley ] The team at TekPub has just released a special free episode on using Mercurial with CodePlex. In it, Rob Conery demonstrates some Mercurial basics using TortoiseHg and VisualHg , pushing your repository...

[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...

[Do you Tweet? Follow me on Twitter @matthawley ] Do you have a passion for open source and want to help shape the direction of CodePlex? Do you love delivering customer-focused products? Are you interested in working with a small, high performance team...

[Do you Tweet? Follow me on Twitter @matthawley ] We deployed the latest version of the CodePlex software today. Associating Change sets to Releases When you’re editing your release information, you’ll notice a new textbox in the Release Details section...

I created my first account on CodePlex back in January 2006, over 4 years ago, when the site was still in an alpha internal-only preview. Shortly after playing with the initial UI, I sent the CodePlex team a 15 page document on all the UI suggestions...

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...

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...

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...

It was 4½ years ago that Sandy Khaund and I founded the group that was chartered to build an open source project hosting site for Microsoft. The site, which eventually became known as CodePlex (it had many internal names) launched a little more than a...

Last week, Scott Hanselman stopped by the CodePlex team room to film a behind the scenes look at how we build the CodePlex.com software. http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/Glucose/Hanselminutes-on-9-Inside-CodePlexcom/ Enjoy!

Yesterday, we deployed the latest version of the CodePlex software. We’re excited to introduce our latest feature, the Documentation tab. CodePlex users now have a consistent place across projects to find documentation, while project owners are encouraged...

Last month, I had the opportunity to fulfill my childhood dream of going to Australia to speak at Microsoft TechEd. However, little did I know this trip to the Southern Hemisphere would take me to new heights at TechEd New Zealand. The link to the full...

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...

The Channel 9 team met with Sara Ford to go over the state of CodePlex, where the site has been and where it is heading to. Link to video: http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/NicFill/A-chat-with-Sara-Ford-CodePlex-turns-3-reaches-10000-projects/

Yesterday, we deployed the latest version of the CodePlex software. Work Item Notifications As of today, our #2 most requested feature asked for the ability to receive email notifications for work items. Back in April , we introduced the ability to receive...