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Check out the new source control tree view browser on CodePlex !

One of the new features we just released on CodePlex is a web tree view browser for looking at files under source control. This makes for a much improved experience for users who view code in the projects on the site. The visual presentation of source code files uses syntax highlighting with specific color matching to keywords, so that what you see is very similar to how files look in Visual Studio under its default display settings. Click the 'Expand all' link to open up the tree view and see the next level of nested files under the top level namespaces:

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This view below is of a C# file after expanding out the tree control. You can now quickly navigate between and drill down into the exact files in a changeset you are interested in. The code is, of course, fully copy and pastable, but notice the new feature addition that when you view a source file now you get a unique URL for that specific file based on a unique ID for that page at the end of the URL, so you can bookmark it for easy reference when you want to return to it later on.  

ex. http://www.codeplex.com/xunit/SourceControl/changeset/view/26430#141127 

Let us know what you think of the new functionality and please offer any ideas for improving things by submitting a work item on the CodePlex Issue Tracker:   http://www.codeplex.com/CodePlex/WorkItem/AdvancedList.aspx

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Posted: Monday, December 01, 2008 9:58 AM by petec
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