<p>I was using Codeplex and tried connecting to their source control using Team Explorer, with no joy. </p>

<p>I also tried connecting with HTTPS or HTTP, using the server name and the project name. As I do not have a user account on Codeplex I could not login.</p>

<p>I am just trying to check out some code without changing it. My question is:</p>

<p>How can I connect Team Explorer to a Codeplex server anonymously?</p>

[{'answer_id': 37625, 'author': 'Jordi', 'author_id': 1893, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1893', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>I think it\'s not possible with Team Explorer. But you can with <a href="http://www.codeplex.com/CodePlexClient" rel="nofollow noreferrer">CodePlex Source Control Client</a> or <a href="http://www.codeplex.com/CodePlex/Wiki/View.aspx?title=Using%20TortoiseSVN%20with%20CodePlex&amp;referringTitle=Source%20control%20clients" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Tortoise</a></p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 37626, 'author': 'jfs', 'author_id': 718, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/718', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>I think you have to use the <a href="http://www.codeplex.com/CodePlexClient" rel="nofollow noreferrer">CodePlex Source Control Client</a>. In includes cpc.exe which supports the anonymous access features of CodePlex TFS servers for non-coordinator/developer access. But according to the site:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n  <p>The CodePlex Client is not currently\n  being maintained. The focus of the\n  CodePlex team now is on the <a href="http://www.codeplex.com/SvnBridge" rel="nofollow noreferrer">SvnBridge</a>.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>I\'m using TortoiseSVN with SvnBridge with no problems. </p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 40340, 'author': 'Oded', 'author_id': 1583, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1583', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>I have used <a href="http://www.codeplex.com/SvnBridge" rel="nofollow noreferrer">SVNBridge</a> with TortoiseSVN, which workes like a charm.</p>\n\n<p>What I was looking for here is a way for anonymous access that is directly integrated with VS. Guess that\'s not possible at the moment.</p>\n\n<p>Also just found out <a href="http://stevenharman.net/blog/archive/2008/09/09/subversion-support-on-codeplex.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">you can connect directly</a> via TortoiseSVN, without SVNBridge. Look for the "SvnBridge on the CodePlex servers?" heading</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 60403, 'author': 'Brad Wilson', 'author_id': 1554, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/1554', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>As the person primarily responsible for making anonymous access work against the TFS CodePlex servers, I can tell you that it isn't possible with Team Explorer. We tried to make it happen, but the way you get anonymous to work would've caused a pretty stellar-sized security hole with Team Explorer.</p>\n\n<p>So, as others have mentioned, the custom-written clients (CPC and SvnBridge) do support anonymous. I know the Teamprise guys were talking about adding it to Teamprise for a while, but not sure if they ever got around to it. It would've been a pretty big change in the way they work (since it basically has to be Workspace-less).</p>\n\n<p><strong>Edit:</strong> Brannon helped, too. Wrote all the horrible C++ that I refuse to write. He just bugged me on IM, so I better amend my previous remarks. :-p</p>\n"}]
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