CodePlex Weblog

URL to Browse the Latest Version of Source Code

Rick Marron — Thu, 09 May 2013 00:30:00 GMT

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.codeplex.com/SourceControl/latest#README.txt

If you would like a URL to a specific version of a file, you can still get this by navigating to the specific commit through the history section of the source browser, or you can replace "/latest" in the new URLs with "/changeset/{commit SHA or changeset ID}".

We also added a new “settings” tab to CodePlex. This tab replaces the old “edit project summary and details” page that previously contained all project’s settings. The settings tab is only visible to project coordinators.

In addition to the above changes, the CodePlex team made the following notable improvements:

Fixed a bug that was stopping users from uploading ClickOnce releases.
Users will automatically become followers for projects they have created.
When clicking a user’s name from the people tab, it will no longer open in a new tab.
It is now possible to edit a closed issue.

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Release Notes 4/24/2013

Rick Marron — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:34:00 GMT

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 search results being incomplete has been fixed.

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Reason Closed in the Issue Tracker

Rick Marron — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:06:00 GMT

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, etc.).

By default, your options are “Unassigned” and “Fixed,” but for each project, you are able to specify the set of reasons you would like by selecting the 'Add/Remove Reasons' link

This feature will be rolled out in batches. So not all projects will see it immediately, but we will try to get it to you as quickly as we can.

Additionally, in this release, we made the following notable changes:

When you log out, you will remain on the same page.
If you hit next issue while in edit mode in the issue tracker, you will no longer be taken out of edit mode.
You are now able to delete your own projects from the project details page, but we hope you will reconsider :-)

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Release Notes 3/29/2013

Rick Marron — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 17:52:00 GMT

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 how markdown text looks in daily digest emails.
We improved the formatting of markdown headings.

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Release Notes 3/20/2013

Rick Marron — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:38:00 GMT

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, click on "Integrate Source Control" and follow the on-screen instructions.

If you ever want to disable this integration, you can do so from your your CodePlex project's "Project Details and Summary" page under the "Web Site Deployment" section.

In addition, the CodePlex team also made the following improvements:

In the advanced view for the issue tracker, you can now filter on an unassigned impact
An attachment that is referenced from multiple wiki pages can now be deleted
.fsproj files will now receive the proper syntax highlighting

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Release Notes 3/14/2013

Rick Marron — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:11:00 GMT

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 users to a TFS project have been resolved
Authentication issues when accessing TFS or SVN have been fixed
Account confirmation will now work regardless of browser extensions

If you are still having problems with any of these features, please contact our support, and we will gladly help you.

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Release Notes 3/6/2013

Rick Marron — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 00:21:00 GMT

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 created an issue can now be contacted directly from the issue page. This can be used to get more information about the reported issue.
An issue related to password creation has been fixed.

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Improving Issue Tracker Details

Rick Marron — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 23:54:00 GMT

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 field of an issue is now set to “unassigned” by default.

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Syntax Highlighting Improvements

Rick Marron — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 16:02:00 GMT

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
SQL
C#
VB.NET
ASPX (C#)
ASPX (VB.NET)
C++
PHP
PowerShell

For more information about our markdown editor and syntax highlighting, you can visit our markdown documentation.

Additionally, we have made the following improvements:

Added typescript syntax highlighting to our source browser! Now any file with a .ts extension will be highlighted appropriately.
Increased the release note size to 10,000 characters
Fixed issues with the daily digest emails

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Release Notes 2/13/2013

Rick Marron — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 22:24:00 GMT

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 download errors for some users
Various bugs in the markdown editor were fixed

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