Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft : Downloads, Codeplex

DotNetNuke Moves to CodePlex

Peter Galli — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:31:00 GMT

DotNetNuke Corporation, the creator of the industry-leading DotNetNuke development framework, has decided to leverage the CodePlex infrastructure for its core product distribution.

DotNetNuke will utilize CodePlex for download infrastructure, bandwidth, and metrics reporting for its core product offerings. Until now, DotNetNuke had been leveraging services from SourceForge.Net. DotNetNuke is also currently the second most commonly downloaded project on CodePlex.

Last February, DotNetNuke Corporation announced the availability of the DotNetNuke Forge, the prime destination for open source collaboration on the DotNetNuke platform. The DotNetNuke Forge has grown in breadth and popularity over the past year and now represents a vital part of the DotNetNuke ecosystem.

The DotNetNuke Corporation researched the many open source project hosting services available, and decided that CodePlex provided the "most reliable and dependable infrastructure, cleanest user experience, most advanced project administration tools, and highest commitment to future innovation," said Scott Willhite, its Co-Founder and Community Director.

CodePlex Program Manager Sara Ford says Microsoft is excited about having DotNetNuke join the CodePlex community and, as the leading open source web application framework for ASP.NET, the CodePlex team is looking forward to partnering with them to promote open source development on the Microsoft platform.

The team is also looking forward to hearing the feedback from the DotNetNuke community for improving the open source development experience on CodePlex.

Featured Project: Family.Show on Codeplex

jcannon — Tue, 27 May 2008 16:09:00 GMT

Over the course of the past year, we've highlighted various community and open source projects on Codeplex. This morning, I wanted to do the same with a very cool open source project that I came across over the weekend called Family.Show. Family.Show is a genealogy project that visualizes family mapping and relationships. The project was released in July 2007 and it's currently at version 2. While the project is backed by Vertigo Software, it is Open Source and licensed under the Microsoft Public License.

Here's a small screen grab from the project home page:

Over the weekend, I used some free time & a family BBQ to start building my own family tree. Frankly, while I'm impressed with the application and it's ease-of-use, I was more amazed at the interest and enjoyment everyone in my family experienced using it. Everybody from my 83 year old grandmother to my 19 year old sister were excited to explore and add to the family tree. It gives new meaning to the collaborative potential of open source :>

See above, the Cannon family tree (yikes) - but infinitely fascinating to self-described family historians. It's worth noting that Family.Show also supports the import/export of GEDCOM standard files, so your work can interchange with other genealogy software packages as well.

I encourage anyone interested to download & tinker with it. Additionally, here are some additional resources:

Visit the Codeplex project home page
Family.Show at MIX07
Watch a Channel9 Video with the core development team

-Jamie

Community Projects on Codeplex

jcannon — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 17:58:00 GMT

Heading into a long (and quiet) weekend for many folks in the US, I thought I would highlight some useful open source and shared source projects on Codeplex, particularly after reading eWeek's gallery of the Top 25 Most Active Open Source Projects on Codeplex. There's some practical tools in the article - including an open source blogging engine, SQL sample applications and a cool mapping application. What many folks may not know is that there are over 2,000 projects available on Codeplex. Check out, among others:

IronRuby also released last month (it lives on RubyForge) - John Lam has more details here. If you're interested in learning more, I would also recommend checking out our Sourceforge landing page that highlights open source projects and programs at Microsoft. While you're on Sourceforge, we have some interesting projects over there as well - including the WiX Toolset and the OpenXML/ODF Translator.

Enjoy the weekend (and the downloads).
-Jamie

New Codeplex Projects....

MichaelF — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 21:26:00 GMT

Project Name	Description	License
DSL TreeGrid Editor PowerToy	This project aims to provide a new capability that will allow you to very easily provide a custom ‘tool window’ specifically for your DSL language that edits hierarchical domain classes and relationships (embedded or referenced).	MS-PL
Project Helping Hand	Project Helping hand is an Outlook 2007 add-in that provides a way for MVPs to work with the MSDN forums at (http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/default.aspx?siteid=1) from a rich client.	MS-PL
Live in a Box	A packaged experience of Windows Live technology, in a box. This project familiarizes you with the following, using a slew of sample applications which you can walk through in an hour - it's the fastest way to learn about Windows Live.	MS-PL
Crash a Party	This sample mashup uses the Windows Live Contacts Control and Virtual Earth to place your Windows Live Contacts on a map. It allows you to map your contacts, choose a place to meet, and then send customized driving directions in e-mail to each of your contacts and it also incorporating data feeds from third-party event calendaring sites.	MS-PL
POX.NET	POX.NET is a set of utility classes that assist in creating POX (Plain Old Xml) clients and servers in .NET 2.0. This library leverages classes within .NET 2.0 and does not require any additional add-ons. With POX.NET you can create a POX client and server with a few lines of code.	MS-PL
Windows Installer PowerShell Extensions	Exposes Windows Installer functionality to PowerShell, providing means to query installed product and patch information and to query views on packages.	MS-PL
EFS Assistant	The EFS Assistant is a tool shipping as part of the "Data Encryption Toolkit" Solution Accelerator from the Microsoft Solution Accelerators team (http://www.microsoft.com/det).	MS-PL

Codeplex Update

MichaelF — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 21:47:00 GMT

Project Name	Description	License
ConferenceXP	ConferenceXP is a shared-source research platform developed by Microsoft Research that provides simple, flexible, and extensible conferencing and collaboration using high-bandwidth networks, and the advanced multimedia capabilities of Microsoft Windows. ConferenceXP helps researchers and educators develop innovative applications and solutions, featuring broadcast-quality audio and video, to support real-time distributed collaboration and distance learning environments.	MSR-SSLA (academic non-commercial dist)
Windows Vista Registry Shell Namespace Extensions	The Windows Registry Shell Namespace Extension allows Windows Explorer to view and interact with the Windows Registry data via Explorer windows. It demonstrates existing Shell extensibility points like IShellFolder2 and SHCreateShellFolderView and also demonstrates new concepts in Vista including the property system, property schema extensibility, and content indexing via Protocol Handlers.	MS-PL
SMS Notifier	Add a “reply with SMS message" to missed calls on Windows Mobile 5.0 devices	MS-PL
Disk Output Cache for ASP.NET	Disk Output Cache is an HTTP Module for ASP.NET v2.0+ that implements HTTP response caching on disk	MS-PL
Cache My Work	Utility that shows a simple checklist of currently open applications, and will restart apps selected the next time user logon to the computer.	MS-CL

Codeplex Project Update

MichaelF — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:29:00 GMT

Two updates this week but I also have some bigger news to report:

Starting February 10th, any registered user can start their own Codeplex Project! Check out the details here: http://www.codeplex.com/Wiki/View.aspx?ProjectName=CodePlex

Project Name	Description	License
Litware HR	The SaaS sample application is a fictitious HR application providing recruitment management software delivered as a service. The main objective of the sample application is to provide hands on guidance on the additional architectural requirements of SaaS.	MS-PL
Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 Analytics: Foundation	Provides UDM definitions, reports/KPIs, predictive analytics code samples, whitepaper, etc. to partners and ISVs as a foundation for building business intelligence solutions on top of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0.	MS-PL

Codeplex Projects Update

MichaelF — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 18:41:00 GMT

In response to some requests from Port 25 visitors, this week I am going to start a weekly series of posts focused on new Codeplex releases. Because we haven't done this in the past, I'm going to look back about a month on this first post but moving forward I'll provide a weekly update. These updates are primarily going to focus on releases made by Microsoft but if you own a Codeplex project and you'd like to see it listed here, please shoot me a mail: michael.francisco@microsoft.com.

Project Name	Description	License
ASP.NET RSS Toolkit	ASP.NET RSS Toolkit gives ASP.NET applications the ability to consume and publish to RSS feeds.	MS-PL
Groove Web Services V12 Helpers	A C# .NET assembly that provides an abstraction layer for all of Groove 3.1 and Groove 2007 web services. The goal of the abstraction layer is to provide an easy to use API, with an object and eventing model, so that applications that interact with Groove can be built quickly and in a straight forward manner.	MS-PL
Smart Client Guidance (Patterns and Practices)	Site dedicated to the following patterns & practices offerings: -The Composite UI Application Block -The Smart Client Software Factory -The Mobile Client Software Factory -Updater Application Block -Offline Application Block	Patterns and Practices License (Modified version of MS-LPL)
Enterprise Library (Patterns and Practices)	The patterns & practices Enterprise Library is a library of application blocks designed to assist developers with common enterprise development challenges. Application blocks are a type of guidance, provided as source code that can be used "as is," extended, or modified by developers to use on enterprise development projects.	Patterns and Practices License (Modified version of MS-LPL)
Sharepoint Shared Services Search Provider Property Creation	A neat little command utility that lets you do four things when moving a DB from development to production. -Accept relevant inputs from the user -Export Managed Properties -Export Crawl Properties and relevant categories -Import Managed properties and map relevant crawl properties	MS-PL
SharePoint 2007 Shared Services Provider User Profile Importer	Designed and developed to allow users who do not have a well populated Active Directory to get information in to MOSS 2007 User Profiles	MS-PL
SharePoint 2007 Shared Services Provider User Profile Property Replicator	Designed to take custom user profile properties and export/import them into another MOSS 2007 server.	MS-PL
GAX Extensions Library (Patterns and Practices)	This library contains various utility classes to supplement those already included with the Guidance Automation Extensions (GAX) to Visual Studio 2005.	MS-PL
Swedish Reference Application	.NET application/solution that will be leveraged as a reference application for Swedish Developer events and discussions. The ambition is to create a common solution that easily can be modified to include new features as well as adopt to new technologies and recommendations and continuously update the source code and references.	MS-PL
WMI Shell Folder	A shell folder integrating a view of WMI into explorer.	MS-PL
Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals Samples	Samples project for Microsoft Visual Studion Team Edition 2005 for Database Professionals	MS-PL
Web Service Software Factory (Patterns and Practices)	Integrated collection of tools, patterns, source code and prescriptive guidance. It is designed to help you quickly and consistently construct WCF and ASMX Web services that adhere to well known architecture and design patterns	Patterns and Practices License (Modified version of MS-LPL)
Darauk's Tools	Source code control for Darauk's projects, utilities, and tools.	MS-PL
PHP for Microsoft AJAX Library	Support for using the Microsoft AJAX Library on top of PHP. Previous version released as sample code.	MS-PL
ASP.NET Real World Controls	Real World implementations of custom GridViews	MS-PL