Submit your Toolkit fixes with the new Toolkit Patch Utility!

One of the big challenges for the Toolkit has been how to get the community more involved.  The way CodePlex works, we only have a limited number of contributors that have checkin and source control rights (CodePlex is aware of this issue and working on a solution).  What this means is that there isn't an easy way for general community members to give us fixes for the issues they encounter.

Well - Ted & David (two Toolkit devs) crafted a great solution to this problem, now available as a beta.  It's a Windows Forms app deployed via ClickOnce so it's a snap to install and use. 

Just run the tool to pick up source (via the source download on CodePlex), the make your changes.  The tool diffs your changes and creates a patch zip file, which you can just upload as an attachment to the bug report on the CodePlex IssueTracker for the Toolkit.  On our side, we can then take that patch and easily apply it for evaluation.  If we like your fix, we'll check it in!

It's a new tool, so we'd definitely like feedback about any issues or the overall experience.  Just file those bugs on our CodePlex issue tracker for now as well.

David has all the details here, take a look!