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entrepreneurs with things Open Source Let's talk about Codeplex

What is CodePlex?

CodePlex is a site for housing projects open source software (open source) created by Microsoft. Features include wiki pages, source control source based on Team Foundation Server, discussion forums, task tracking, support for tags on the project, RSS support, statistics and publishing management of projects.

The site was launched in beta mode in May 2006 and was one month after its official launch. The site is updated every three weeks to a new version, which includes new features. To date we have registered more than 13,000 projects.

What kind of housing projects Codeplex?

So basically focuses on projects. NET (including ASP.NET) and Microsoft Share Point, but also harbors projects SQL, Windows Presentation Foundation and Winforms.

Is there really important projects here?

Of course, his most prominent and widely used is the control toolkit AJAX (AJAX Control Toolkit.) This project is a collaboration of community and Microsoft.

also has other important projects as: Smart Client Software Factory , Web Client Software Factory , Community Kit for SharePoint , SharePoint Learning Kit , SharePoint Ajax Toolkit , Manager SharePoint and SharePoint Templates .

So why do not you take a tour of Codeplex to see a bit more about it, and who knows, can and will be excited to join and start contributing in large open source projects.