As a contributor to a number of projects on CodePlex I really like the fact that the discussions feature exists but also I need ways to help me sort the discussions threads so I can make sure no-one is getting forgotten about. Seems like a lot of you...

Just a quick post to let you know that we recently added support for linking issues to commits in CodePlex using the same #1234 syntax being used in TFS 2013. Basically, if you insert a ‘#’ symbol followed by an integer in your commit statement, changeset...

You’ll be seeing some more posts from me here soon so wanted to quickly say hi. My name is Martin Woodward and I’ve just moved over to work on CodePlex team here in Microsoft as the PM. I’ve been part of the CodePlex community since May 2006 (3 years...

The source code experience on CodePlex just got more social. Now, you can comment directly on a commit when viewing a project’s source code history. This feature acts as a nice compliment to the existing ability to comment on a pull request's commits...

CodePlex is now able to send commit events to Zapier! If you haven’t played with Zapier before, we highly recommend checking it out. It is a web service that allows you to connect 200+ services on the web without writing any code. With the new CodePlex...

CodePlex is now able to talk to other services! For example, if you want CodePlex to tell Trello to update cards on your Trello board, it can do it. Or if you want CodePlex to notify your Campfire chat room when updates are pushed, it can do that too...

CodePlex now supports markdown in the source browser! All files with a .md extension will be formatted as markdown. For more information on the markdown syntax that we support, check out our documentation. In the source browser, relative links are...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In this release, the CodePlex team added keyboard shortcuts to the markdown editor. The commands are as follows: CTRL + B -> Bold CTRL + I -> Italics CTRL + O -> Numbered List CTRL + U -> Bulleted List CTRL + L -> Hyperlink...

Brian Harry made two major announcements today at the ALM Summit. Visual Studio will support Git Team Foundation Server will host Git repositories. When we added Git to CodePlex back in March of last year a missing piece, for many customers...

We now support markdown in our discussion editor! If you are new to markdown, you can learn more about it from our previous blog post on the topic. A couple other notable changes are: Editing and replying to discussions on iPads and iPhones is now...

We added formatting buttons to our markdown editor! Now, if you are trying to learn markdown or you just forgot the syntax for a hyperlink, you can click the formatting buttons, and the proper markdown syntax will be added to the text. The supported markdown...

The CodePlex team has been working hard to improve our TFS cluster, and it is now running much faster! The improvements will increase reliability and performance of source browsing, issue tracking, project creation, and team management for TFS projects...

We are very excited to announce that CodePlex now supports markdown in our issue tracker! If you are not familiar with markdown, it is a simple markup language used for text formatting. A brief overview can be found by clicking the "Markdown Help" link...

MyGet is a pretty cool service that allows you to host your own NuGet feed. During the holidays the team at MyGet enabled integration with CodePlex. MyGet announced their public beta of a build service for NuGet packages back in October. With this...

This past week the CodePlex team worked on several fixes to improve the stability of our TFS infrastructure, including applying TFS 2012 Update 1. We apologize for the recent downtime. We are not completely out of the woods, but we appreciate your patience...