May 2009 - Posts
Thanks to Martin Hinshelwood , a Team System MVP, for sharing the following workaround with all of us! Excerpt below copied from solution-to-connecting-to-tfs-using-https-over-the-internet.aspx This problem it seams is to do with the way Visual
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Whenever you create or edit a public release (show to public = yes), there’s the Default Release option. Having a default release will change a project’s homepage from this to this Technorati Tags: CodePlex Tips
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Tip #0 Know your Keybindings! General Development Settings Searching Tips Tip #1 How to behold the power of incremental search Command: Edit.IncrementalSearch Shortcut: Ctrl+i Tip #2 Ctrl+F3 to search for currently-selected word Command: Edit.FindNextSelected
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Yesterday’s tip discussed how to create a planned release. Today’s tip talks about how to assign work items to a planned release so that you can let your users know what you’re planning. A planned release is treated the same way as any other release,
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When I first got started in the OSS world, I learned that one of the best ways to encourage contributions is to plan releases based on when feature work is done. For example, if you say, “I plan to release version 2 on such and such date” users will sit
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You can create a hidden release in case you need to archive older releases. Only project members can view hidden releases. To do this, while you are editing a release, you’ll find the Show to public option. Selecting no will put the release under the
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Okay, you can’t really customize the work item template. But, CodePlex Work Items have a custom field that allows you to insert any text you want into the custom field. For example, you could use this custom field as a Priority field, in case you’re using
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Previously, I mentioned that you can sort by top rated release on CodePlex. But it is also interesting to know you can sort by most downloaded project in the past 7 days. We do past 7 days so that active projects are listed first. Technorati Tags:
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sorry for the delay in the tips. Preparing for TechEd took a lot out of me. And the fact that it was sunny the past few weekends in Seattle didn’t encourage me to stay indoors. Prior to the April 9, 2009 deployment, the only way for users to find out
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Laurel Ruma from O'Reilly and I discuss how to speak New Orleans for TechEd 2010 in this 1 minute video… Enjoy! The link is http://bit.ly/WFEBb or wait for the video to come up
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My video Embrace Open Source on CodePlex from Teched 2009 is now live (for teched attendees only, sorry) at http://www.msteched.com/online/view.aspx?tid=af0b4d90-52bd-4302-a65a-d54c14d1bab4 Below is a picture of some happy CodePlex attendees after the
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I’m at TechEd 2009 presenting on CodePlex – from how to consume and contribute to open source software using the CodePlex feature set, to how we use agile development to deploy every 3 weeks. All sessions will be available 24 hours after the talk. Stay
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With Thursday’s deployment (5/7/2009), you can now hyperlink an image on your homepage. The fun of voting campaigns on Twitter. The syntax is [image:Alternative Text|file.jpg|http://www.codeplex.com] or [image:Alternative Text|http://www.domain.com/file.jpg|http://www.codeplex.com]
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Yesterday, I got an email that started off with “i’ve heard a rumor that…” Nothing bothers a PM more than hearing a supported feature referred to as a rumor. If you’re using a SVN client, like Tortoise, you can mark a work item as fixed when you commit
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With the April 9 deployment, we introduced the ability to directly link to a file to download off of the Release page. Now you can blog about your latest release and have people download it directly. Here’s a direct download for the xUnit.net project
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You may have noticed that some projects have a Download Now button on their homepage Whereas other projects don’t. I would love for all projects to have just a Download Now button, but unfortunately, we currently don’t have a default file concept in the
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In the CodePlex project directory, you can sort by Ratings to find the highest rated releases. In the image below, you can see that the Clone Detective for Visual Studio project. You can also apply a little more context by filtering the results using
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Thanks to Wictor Wilen for twittering / blogging about this tip ! If you’re tired of having to type in your user credentials each and every time you open your project, you can have Windows save the username and password for you. From the CodePlex documentation
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As mention previously, I’m going to use Fridays to write more a detailed tip or article about CodePlex. For those who just want to follow this weekly tip, you can subscribe to just the CodePlex Weekly Tips RSS feed (see bottom of post). Otherwise, you
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