![]() If you reopen the gadget it should now display the download information for the releases you have configured. Notice that the variables are case-sensitive and multiple lines have to be separated with, (comma). You can do this as displayed in the comment above. The first thing you need to do is to provide the information about the releases you want to track. You can do that with any text editor you want including Notepad. Upon installation you should see the following:Īfter clicking on the "Configure releases" link a new explorer window will open with the configuration.js file selected. You can install it as any other Vista Sidebar Gadget. ![]() The CodePlex Downloads Gadget v1.0.0.0 is provided as a. Configuring the CodePlex Downloads Gadget v1.0.0.0 Depending on the feedback I might consider extending it to provide some Gadget-like settings interface. If you like the gadget however, and are planning to use it to track your releases let me know. I have made the gadget to save myself some time browsing through all the releases. The version 1.0.0.0 is a little more than me-ware: it will work yet the configuration has to be done manually in one of the gadget's JavaScript files. By clicking on the name of the particular release you can go directly to its page at CodePlex. You can provide the name of the release, its URL, and how you want to sort the results. The CodePlex Downloads Gadget retrieves the number of downloads for up to 8 CodePlex projects' releases. Introducing CodePlex Downloads Gadget v1.0.0.0 To automate the whole process I have decided to create a Vista Sidebar Gadget which would retrieve these numbers for me. As I've already mentioned: I have posted quite some tools, so regularly tracking the number of downloads for all them slowly became too time consuming. CodePlex provides some statistics about projects and releases among which the number of downloads for each particular release. Unfortunately as only 10% of the whole community contributes I needed to found another way to find out what the community thinks of my tools. Just as every other author, I've been curious about the successfulness of my products.
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