Current projects on CodePlex
The CodePlex site was launched with a handful of projects, and the numbers continue to increase. The following list provides a sampling of current projects on the site:
- AJAX Control Toolkit : A good example of Microsoft contributing to the CodePlex site. It offers Web-client components built with Microsoft’s ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions .
- IronPython : A version of the popular Python programming language for the .NET platform. It simplifies the transition to .NET for Python developers.
- BlogEngine.NET : A full-featured blog engine built with ASP.NET 2.0. The current edition requires no database backend as it uses XML for data storage.
- Community Kit for SharePoint : Working with SharePoint can get confusing in a hurry as you dig deeper into the product. The Community Kit for SharePoint provides a set of best practices, templates, Web Parts, tools, and source code to simplify getting SharePoint to do what you want.
- Sandcastle Help File Builder : It fills in the gaps with Microsoft’s Sandcastle documentation engine. It incorporates some NDoc-like features and provides graphical and command line-based tools to build a help file in an automated fashion. This is just one of the Sandcastle-related projects on the site.
- Flickr.Net API Library : The Flickr.Net API is a .Net Library for accessing the Flickr API. It allows you to easily include Flickr functionality in a .NET application.
- CodePlex Source Control Client : Creating new projects and contributing to existing projects requires a source control client. The CodePlex development team created their own client, which is available via this download.
- Phalanger : The PHP Language Compiler for the .NET Framework with a current version of 2.0. It allows you to develop .NET applications with the popular PHP language.
- XML Notepad : Working with XML is tedious and often confusing. XML Notepad 2007 provides an easy-to-use interface for editing and creating XML documents.
- .NET Reflector Add-Ins : A list of powerful add-ins for the .NET Reflector tool. This includes tools for code review and metrics, version comparing, and much more.
- Tower Defense : An addictive game built with the .NET Framework.
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