Two wholly unrelated end-of-life events are on the horizon, one for the once-popular CodePlex source code sharing site built by Microsoft, and the other for a waning Visual Studio 2008. Microsoft's ...

The Visual Studio Code page on GitHub hosts a slew of tips, and CodePlex will be shutting down later this year. Bonus: Inaugural .NET Insight Podcast! Now that most of Microsoft's open source projects ...

In a move that caps off its gradual embrace of open source in a bear hug, Microsoft last week announced that it would shutter its nearly 11-year-old CodePlex project site and migrate its library of ...

Microsoft Corporation 's MSFT vice president for Cloud Developer Services, Brian Harry announced in a blog post that the company will pull the plug on CodePlex, a website for code sharing and project ...

The dominance of GitHub in the project hosting and code sharing space has claimed another victim, with Microsoft announcing plans to shut down its CodePlex site following a period of decreasing use.

Microsoft announced on Friday it is shutting down CodePlex, its code hosting site for open-source projects, in favor of the more widely used GitHub. The move is something of a formality, since ...

These days, GitHub is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of services for hosting open source software and projects, but it wasn't the first on the block with this idea. For over a ...

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Microsoft announced Friday that CodePlex, the company’s open source project-hosting service, will be closed down. Started in 2006, the service offered an alternative to SourceForge. It was based ...

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Responding to user demand, Microsoft now allows projects using its CodePlex open source code repository to use the increasingly popular Git version-control system built by Linux creator Linus Torvalds ...

CodePlex, Microsoft’s open source project hosting service, will now support the use of the git distributed version control system. git, created by Linus Torvalds to support the development of the ...