CodePlex was a forge website owned and operated by Microsoft, launched in May 2006.[1] It allowed shared development of open-source software, with features including wiki pages, source control based on Mercurial, TFVC, Subversion or Git, discussion forums, issue tracking, project tagging, RSS support, statistics, and releases.
CodePlex was archived in October 2017 and completely shut down on October 21, 2021.[2]
History[]
In early 2004, an early version of CodePlex went online for only a few hours to users following a website development issue.
Official launch[]
On May 25, 2006, Microsoft released a public beta version of CodePlex as CodePlex Beta on the domain codeplex.com. One of the first projects was named DBMetadataGenerator.
Possibly around August 2006, the website exited beta and became available worldwide. The site used a 'greeny' look for a few years before changing the theme to plain white.
Shutdown[]
On March 31, 2017, Microsoft announced the discontinuation of CodePlex. The original plan was to make the website read-only in October 2017 before finally shutting it down on December 15, 2017. Microsoft partnered with GitHub to allow projects to be migrated to the service.[3] 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.
References[]
- ↑ Karlin, Sue (June 6, 2011). "Social Networks for Engineers". IEEE.org.
- ↑ CodePlex on ArchiveTeam
- ↑ Harry, Brian (March 31, 2017). "Shutting down CodePlex". MSDN Blogs. Microsoft.