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Mercurial Conversion from Team Foundation Server

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:06:58 GMT

If you are a developer currently using Team Foundation Server and are looking to switch to Mercurial, this post describes the process of migrating your source history with the help of several tools.

VisualHG: A Mercurial Plugin for Visual Studio

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:41:31 GMT

Mercurial is quickly gaining momentum in the open source world, and the need for great tooling to make developers lives easier is always essential. Most developers using Mercurial know of the the explorer shell plugin, TortoiseHg, but what many don't know about is VisualHG.

Tekpub: Mercurial with Codeplex

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:45:02 GMT

A free TekPub episode about working with Codeplex and Mercurial.

DiffPlex - a .NET Diff Generator

Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:15:00 GMT

DiffPlex is a combination of a .NET Diffing Library with both a Silverlight and HTML diff viewer. It is released open source on CodePlex under the MS-PL license.

CodePlex now supporting native Mercurial

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 02:43:50 GMT

CodePlex now supporting native Mercurial DVS

Snippet Designer 1.2 Beta Release with Visual Studio 2010 Support

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:21:31 GMT

This release contains several bug fixes but more importantly it now includes support for Visual Studio 2010.

WikiPlex - CodePlex's Wiki Engine - Releases v1.2

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:50:41 GMT

CodePlex's embeddable wiki engine, WikiPlex has just released v1.2. Release highlights include indentation macro, C++/Java syntax highlight support, and more! See the full release notes for all changes.

WikiPlex - CodePlex's Wiki Engine - Releases v1.1

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:56:36 GMT

CodePlex's embeddable wiki engine, WikiPlex has just released v1.1. Release highlights include compatibility for Mono, scope augmenters, and more! See the full release notes for all changes.

Extending WikiPlex with Custom Renderers

Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:24:19 GMT

A follow-up blog post on the second half of extending CodePlex's wiki engine, WikiPlex to support custom macro syntaxes. This post focuses on creating custom renderers.

Extending WikiPlex with Custom Macros

Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:30:59 GMT

Utilize the open api to extend CodePlex's wiki engine, WikiPlex, to customize it for your needs. This first installment shows and explains how to create your own custom macro.

WikiPlex - An Embedded Wiki Engine

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:00:00 GMT

Introducing WikiPlex, which is CodePlex's wiki engine that has been re-written and made open source under the MS-PL license. The first public version has also been released!

NHibernate.Linq Alpha Released

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 23:16:08 GMT

NHibernate.Linq is a Linq provider for NHibernate 2.0.1 GA. It processes Linq expressions using NHibernate's Criteria API. This release is meant as a stopgap release pending an implementation not reliant on the Criteria API. Most queries are supported with the exception of the following: - Group Joins - Subqueries in select clause

xVal - a validation framework for ASP.NET MVC

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 12:46:03 GMT

xVal lets you link up your choice of server-side validation mechanism with your choice of client-side validation library. It guides you to fit them both into ASP.NET MVC conventions, so everything plays nicely with model binding and errors registered in ModelState.

DotNetNuke Moves to CodePlex

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 06:46:02 GMT

Find out why the DotNetNuke project moved to CodePlex from SourceForge.

Export Providers and Custom factories with MEF

Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:12:23 GMT

MEF has several points which can use to extend it's behavior, one is catalogs, another is using Export Providers. This post takes a look at these points within the context of a real world problem which Matt Hawley had where he needed to export WCF proxies.

MEF + Factories Using an Export Provider

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 23:27:41 GMT

Taking a different approach to resolving factory exports within MEF by using an ExportProvider (new in preview 3 drop) over using a part catalog. This approach ultimately leads to a cleaner and simpler solution.

MEF + Factories

Sat, 29 Nov 2008 02:08:03 GMT

Lately I've been really digging into MEF and have been looking at it's pros & cons, ease of use, extensibility, and the simple DI container that it can provide. I'm not going to give an overview of MEF, as others have done so already. What I am here to show off is a concept that may prove useful for some applications. Many of us use a DI container in very simplistic ways, as well as registering injection strategies during type resolution.

MEF + Factories

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 02:48:44 GMT

Creation of a FactoryPartCatalog using MEF so that you can have DI like constructor injection with type construction strategies using a factory.

ASP.NET MVC: Simplified Localization via ViewEngines

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:01:17 GMT

Thanks to Brad, he identified a few areas that made things MUCH simpler from my prior implementation. Notably, while you still have your ViewEngine specify "here's your view's path" there's no longer a need for having a new helper, derived classes, etc. This implementation goes back to the simplified HtmlHelper extension in which you can use in any ViewEngine regardless. It also allows you to "replace" the implementation by just changing the namespace, just as you can do with Html and Ajax.

ASP.NET MVC: Localization Delegated via View Engines

Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:05:53 GMT

Adding support for localization resources within ASP.NET MVC where the delegation of the resources is determined via the ViewEngine. Provides an example for a derived WebFormViewEngine implementation that adds support for both Global and Local resources via the ASP.NET resource provider.

CodePlex launches support for TortoiseSVN

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 17:01:03 GMT

No longer do you need to host SvnBridge yourself, or use the Team Foundation Client or the CodePlex client. Now you can use your favorite SVN client and connect directly to your repository!

Subversion Support Comes to CodePlex. Sorta'

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:01:02 GMT

A little publicized feature lets you use Subversion to access project hosted on CodePlex - without the need to run SvnBridge locally!

Using Unity Container Hierarchies

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 16:15:43 GMT

The post explain why and how to use Unity container hierarchies

ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 New Finds

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:51:34 GMT

A listing of 6 new finds within the released ASP.NET MVC Preview 4 to CodePlex. Also shows how or why you would use each.

MVC Post-Redirect-Get Sample Updated

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:27:20 GMT

ASP.NET MVC Sample for using the Post-Redirect-Get pattern updated to the MVC Preview 3 bits. Showcasing some newer functionality that makes the pattern more simplistic.