CodePlex was a

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Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational technology corporation producing computer software, consumer electronics, personal computers, and related services headquartered at the Microsoft Redmond campus located in Redmond, Washi ...

. While it was active, it allowed shared development of

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. Its features included

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pages,

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based on

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, TFVC,

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, discussion forums,

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, project tagging, RSS support, statistics, and releases. While CodePlex once encompassed a wide variety of projects, including SQL Server, WPF and

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-related projects, its major activities were focused on

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(including ASP.NET) and

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. The most prominent and used project that was born inside CodePlex, the ''AJAX Control Toolkit'', is a joint project between the community and Microsoft.

History

The initial

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started in May 2006, with the final release a month later in June. A new version of the website was released every three weeks adding additional features and updates. In 2010, an unrelated CodePlex Foundation was renamed

Outercurve Foundation The Outercurve Foundation was an independent 501(c)(6) non-profit corporation founded by Microsoft. Its goal was to "enable the exchange of code and understanding among software companies and open source communities." They ran several software p ...

to clear up confusion that there was a direct relationship between the foundation and CodePlex, which is solely owned and run by Microsoft. Since January 22, 2010,

distributed source control system has been supported as well, and this support has been enhanced. On March 21, 2012, CodePlex announced the support of Git as a source control option. On March 31, 2017, Microsoft announced the discontinuation of CodePlex. The original plan was to make CodePlex read-only in October 2017 before finally shutting it down on December 15, 2017. Microsoft partnered with

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to allow projects to be migrated to the service. An archive was available as a lightweight site to browse the projects that remain, in a read-only mode. The projects could be downloaded or transferred to GitHub or a similar place. Microsoft finally shut down the archive on October 21, 2021.

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"OuterCurve Foundation - about"
{{Microsoft Project hosting websites Microsoft websites Discontinued open-source software hosting facilities

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