Thursday, October 7, 2010

Get latest code of your projects from Codeplex TFS to local

Steps to get the latest from Codeplex TFS to local

Pre-requisite: Visual Studio Team Explorer for Visual Studio 2008/2010.

> Loginto codeplex site CodePlex
> select the desired project link form the "Your Projects" section on the RHS
> Select the Source Code tab
> Select Visual Studio Team Explorer from the "Source Control Setup" section on the RHS.
This will show the TFS info.

Server Name: tfs.codeplex.com
Path: tfs
Port number: 443
Protocol: https
Project Collection: TFS02
Project Name: DHLVCWP
Username: snd\g........y_cp
Password:

The Visual Studio Team Explorer client provides access to Team Foundation Server from within Visual Studio. For information on installing the client please read the Visual Studio Team Explorer wiki page. To connect to your server please read:

* Connecting to TFS with Team Explorer 2010
* Connecting to TFS with Team Explorer 2008 or 2005

You will need the information above to add the Team Foundation Server in your Visual Studio Team Explorer.

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

CodePlex Publishing Plugin

CodePlex Publishing Plugin: "Project Description
This addin allows publishing your project directly from Visual Studio, thus eliminating the unnecessary step of going to the CodePlex site to publish.

Currently allows publishing only ClickOnce releases to CodePlex, but I may be adding the ability to publish regular releases as well; will see how useful that option might be - after all, publishing ClickOnce releases is somewhat cumbersome, but normal releases are easy enough (and, possibly, more convenient) to do through the web interface.
The recommended for download release is a ClickOnce release, published using this plugin. You will download and install the installer for the plugin that shows the currently installed version of the plugin (N/A if you dont have it), and the available version. And gives you the ability to install the new version. Since it is a ClickOnce application, it will automatically ask you to update when you run in (if a new version is out), so this is a good test case/example, I think."

CodePlex Publishing Plugin

CodePlex Publishing Plugin: "Project Description
This addin allows publishing your project directly from Visual Studio, thus eliminating the unnecessary step of going to the CodePlex site to publish.

Currently allows publishing only ClickOnce releases to CodePlex, but I may be adding the ability to publish regular releases as well; will see how useful that option might be - after all, publishing ClickOnce releases is somewhat cumbersome, but normal releases are easy enough (and, possibly, more convenient) to do through the web interface.
The recommended for download release is a ClickOnce release, published using this plugin. You will download and install the installer for the plugin that shows the currently installed version of the plugin (N/A if you dont have it), and the available version. And gives you the ability to install the new version. Since it is a ClickOnce application, it will automatically ask you to update when you run in (if a new version is out), so this is a good test case/example, I think."

CodePlex publishing plugin

CodePlex publishing plugin: "This extension adds a toolbar to VS, that is similar to the Web Deployment toolbar. It allows you to set up a profile (you input your CodePlex username/password and a few other fields). Once that is set up, and your project is correctly set up for ClickOnce publishes, you can simply publish using the toolbar, instead of going to your project's web page, and creating a release there.
You also have the ability to replace an existing release: that is, if a release with the specified name already exists, the extension can simply edit its description, etc. and upload the new publish zipfile."

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