CodePlex 2008 – A Year in Review
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. Their feedback would play a significant role in determining the priorities for upcoming features. Now that a year has past, we wanted to share with you how CodePlex has grown.
| Site Traffic | 2008 | 2007 | % increase from 2007 |
| Visits | 19,493,502 | 8,891,178 | +119% |
| User Hours | 2,804,898 | 1,237,356 | +127% |
| Unique Visitors | 9,811,365 | 4,532,440 | +116% |
| New Registered Users | 66,553 | 38,651 | +72% |
| New Projects | 4,542 | 2,130 | +113% |
New Features
Over 2008, we had 12 new releases of the CodePlex software, with the following top 9 features:
- Subversion client support – server hosted SVN Bridge allowing SVN clients to “just work” against the CodePlex TFS servers
- Site redesign – new look and feel, upgraded UI. The end of the nuclear waste green era.
- Silverlight hosting – okay, technically not deployed within 2008, but who’s counting =D
- Project statistics – see daily statistics of page views, downloads, and visits
- Ratings and reviews – rate and review project releases
- Project Discussions mailing lists – get notifications and discuss projects via e-mail alongside the online discussion boards
- AJAX Source code browser – easily browse source code before download with file tree view and source code syntax highlighting
- Search improvements – added sort by relevance or ratings, search by development status or license type, and search term highlighting
- Discussions rich text editor – write Discussions posts using a WYSIWYG editor
Top New Projects of 2008
These are the top Open Source projects created in 2008, by page view count:
- WPF - This is the main site for updates on the WPF roadmap and the portal for accessing the WPF Toolkit and the WPF Futures releases.
- Silverlight - The Silverlight Toolkit is a collection of Silverlight controls, components and utilities made available outside the normal Silverlight release cycle.
- CompositeWPF - The Composite Application Guidance for WPF and Silverlight is designed to help you more easily build enterprise-level Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and Silverlight client applications.
- MVCSamples - This project is for prototype and sample ASP.NET MVC Sample applications.
- Unity - The Unity Application Block (Unity) is a lightweight extensible dependency injection container with support for constructor, property, and method call injection.
- White - Automate windows applications
And as for 2009?
We’re waiting to hear your feedback! Let us know what we can do.
