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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mm1352000" data-source="post: 774357" data-attributes="member: 82144">Hi again BrianJust a few brief comments as I am at work still - don't you love timezones! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />We greatly appreciate any contributions! The team doesn't do this for the money but there are costs involved in running the website, forum etc. and buying hardware for devs and testers. Some people put money towards that; others help with testing; some people submit patches or create plugins and skins; others help new people who are struggling; some people just enjoy using the software. All are fine. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />I had never used C# before I started working on MediaPortal, and that was about 9 months ago I guess. It is easy to learn in my opinion. SVN is short for subversion. It is just a system for keeping track of changes to code. You can imagine what it would be like if we didn't have some sort of system for managing code - developers from all over the world (well, mostly Europe...) trying to work on the same code at the same time. Would be madness! So that's where SVN comes in. You can read more about it --><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Subversion" target="_blank">here</a><--. As for Sourceforge - it is basically just a huge SVN repository (colloquially: dumping ground <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />) - it hosts code for thousands of projects...MediaPortal.Core is part of MediaPortal (hence the name), not part of any plugin. You'll find the MediaPortal source info in our wiki --><a href="http://wiki.team-mediaportal.com/1_MEDIAPORTAL_1/18_Contribute/4_Development/Subversion_%28SVN%29" target="_blank">here</a><--. You'll have to deal with that "SVN" thing again <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />D). Note that you want the code from the "MediaPortal 1" and "MediaPortal and TV-Server's common libraries, code and plugins" repositories - you can probably safely ignore the rest, at least at this stage.If you can write a batch script then I'm sure you can figure it out too. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />Not any specific software, but *many* people (myself included) use <a href="http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/" target="_blank">TortoiseSVN</a> (a bit of a tutorial <a href="http://www.shokhirev.com/nikolai/programs/SVN/svn.html" target="_blank">here</a>). It integrates into Windows Explorer really nicely.No not for downloading - yes for uploading though. You don't even need to sign up to SourceForge if you only want to get the code. The URL (web address) of the repository is really the only thing that you need. Once you have that, you can use a tool like TortoiseSVN to download the code to your computer and start working with it straight away.mm</blockquote>

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