If you have worked with the CodePlex site for managing at least a few of your projects you will soon have a list of servers which a variety of your projects may or may not exist on.  For the 10 or so projects that I contribute to or own I need to connect to three different servers this is annoying.

Since I use Team Explorer and it is simply not smart enough (hopefully - YET) to have multiple connections open to different servers at the same time, I need to switch servers depending on the project I want to work on.  Visual Studio, and the process of switching servers via Team Explorer (at least on my laptop), is pretty slow.  So this process of multi-tasking/project swapping is painful and time consuming.

What I recommend is:

1. Team Explorer gets the much needed upgrade to support multiple server sources.  There is still the use case of working with local TFS and CodePlex Project simultaneously.

2. CodePlex gets a project redirection enhancement – a proxy.  I should be able to add just: Projects.CodePlex.com:443, plug in my credentials, and it gathers up all of my projects across all of their nodes into one single server source. Single endpoint == good.

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