Our latest deployment adds mailing list support for project discussions: start or respond to a discussion from your e-mail client; get notifications of new responses as they come in, or in daily digest format. Now users can subscribe to an entire project’s discussions, including all new discussions posted to the project.
Project owners get improved communication with their users, and users get increased assurance that their voice will be heard by the community, wherever project users and members may be when they receive the e-mail.
Sign up for a mailing list by visiting any projects discussions tab, or see our CodePlex Mailing Lists Documentation for more information.
Paula Bach, a PhD Student at Penn State University, is conducting research on how to integrate usability into open source software development. She’s been hanging out with us over the past month, learning how we develop the CodePlex software. She’s now seeking research volunteers from the CodePlex user base.
From her blog post,
I am looking for developers who are working on projects hosted on CodePlex. The projects could be in the planning stage, alpha, beta, or stable. As a volunteer, you would be asked questions about your activities performed on CodePlex. The interview should not take longer than 60-90 minutes.
You can follow up with Paula at codeplexresearch@live.com
The Sandcastle project has been republished. You can find both the project and its source code at http://www.codeplex.com/sandcastle
Today is the 2nd anniversary of the CodePlex launch announcement. We celebrated with some birthday cake on this nice, warm and sunny Friday afternoon in Seattle.
CodePlex team members who are not currently on vacation. =) We have a few who are out of office right now.
And a picture of our half-eaten birthday cake. I have got to remember to take pictures first, then eat the cake…
This year, SourceForge is inviting CodePlex projects to participate in their Community Choice Awards. The CCAs is an annual event where members of the SourceForge community nominate and vote for their favorite OSS projects.
CCA Badges are available for those who want to campaign for their favorite OSS project.
Go nominate and vote for your favorite eligible CodePlex projects!
As Sara already mentioned, we added syntax highlighting to CodePlex on Monday. To be specific, we added syntax highlighting to the source code browser. We intend to add it to the Wiki as well, in the near future.
Currently, we support the follow programming languages and file extensions:
- C# (.cs)
- VB.NET (.vb)
- SQL (.sql)
- HTML (.html)
- JavsScript (.js) *
- ASPX with C# and ASPX with VB.NET (.aspx, .ascx)
- XML (.xml)
* We also style JavaScript embedded in HTML and ASPX files
We plan to add more languages based on your requests. Please create an issue in the CodePlex Issue Tracker to request syntax highlighting for additional languages, or to report any problems you find with the current languages.
Yesterday, we deployed our latest feature – support for Code Syntax Highlighting.
Support for Syntax Highlighting was our 2nd most requested feature with 113 votes. For languages not yet supported, please open an issue in our Issue Tracker (and definitely vote if it is already opened!)
When you browse source files checked in under the Source Control tab, you’ll get syntax highlighting.
Screenshot taken from AJAX Control Toolkit
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 CodePlex” lunch talk, especially considering the tight TechEd schedule. Also, Colin had a great Q&A session during the “Meet the Experts.” Great questions, Great discussions, Great people.
A few pics from TechEd…
Colin working the CodePlex booth
Jim and Colin taking a break from booth duty
The teched logistic people told me to take down the CodePlex banner, so I decided to wear it as a cape and run around as an action figure.
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 avenue for this project.
Thanks for your understanding. Please feel free to contact me (saraf@microsoft.com) directly regarding any questions.
Jim, Sara, and I will be working at the CodePlex booth in the MSDN Community Zone all next week. Also, Sara will be giving the following talk on CodePlex:
Embrace Open Source on CodePlex
Dev Conference LUN07
Session Day/Time: 6/3/2008 12:00PM-1:00PM
Room: S230 C
And I will be at the "Windows Ask the Expert Zone" Thursday between 11 and 12 taking questions on CodePlex.
All you TechEd attendees, come swing by!
Are you in the Seattle area? Want to help us improve CodePlex? June 9 through 11, we will be evaluating new CodePlex features in 60 minute, 1 on 1 sessions in downtown Seattle. We are looking for any level of CodePlex experience, from downloading only to coordinating multiple projects. See below for more info on usability study participation.
Not in the Seattle area or can’t participate? No worries, you can still help! We’re looking for project coordinators to take the following survey to tell us more about your projects and your intended audiences, so we can better meet your needs.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=YHzJk4ZZoZwspxb2WbwpKw_3d_3d
Usability Study Participation
If you would like to be considered for participation, please Contact Us and include your:
- name
- daytime phone number
- email address
A recruiting agency may contact you to schedule a time, depending on number of responses.
On Friday, we released the latest version of the CodePlex software featuring the Telerik RadEditor on the Project Discussion pages.
The RadEditor features include: font choice, font size, font style, bullet points and numbering, indent, outdent, horizontal rule, hyperlinks, and spell check. More information is available in our Telerik RadEditor Overview.
Please note that all wiki discussion board content prior to the upgrade has been migrated to the new format.
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.
Contact me for more information.
Yesterday, we deployed our latest CodePlex feature – Project Stats Pages. These project stats pages provide details for downloads, page views, visits, and referrals over the project lifetime. Additionally, the project’s stats can be viewed in weekly, monthly, and yearly segments. Visit any CodePlex project to check out the new stats pages, or go to the Stats FAQ for more information.
We display the stats data using the Telerik RadChart, and we obtain page views, visits, and referrals from WebTrends.
Breakdown of stats available for each project:
· Downloads - downloads includes all publicly available releases, source code changesets, and wiki attachments
· Page Views - page views indicate the total number of views on any page on the project
· Visits - a visit is a series of one or more page views from the same browser within a short timeframe
· Referrals – the list of referring sites
For example, using the xUnit project, here’s what the stats look like for the month of February. In the graph below, there were 273 page views on Feb 15, 2008.
Enjoy!
The CodePlex team is proud to announce our partnership with the DotNetNuke corporation for their
DotNetNuke Forge launch. The DotNetNuke Forge is a premier destination for open source collaboration on the DotNetNuke platform, with CodePlex as the project hosting site. You can read more about the launch in the
DotNetNuke Forge press release.
Start by browsing the current list of projects in the
DotNetNuke Forge Directory. If you want to join, or already have a CodePlex project for DotNetNuke you want added, check out the
FAQ at the bottom.
