Microsoft site CodePlex turns 2

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Microsoft's CodePlex celebrates its second year of helping .Net developers dabble in open source. The Microsoft open-source site enables developers to contribute to and share code for such projects as IronPython.The Microsoft community development site, CodePlex, celebrated its second anniversary in early August.

On Aug. 6, S. "Soma" Somasegar, senior vice president of Microsoft's Developer Division, blogged that CodePlex had reached its second year of operation as a Microsoft-run hosting site. The community site houses open-source software that can be used by developers to build applications that run on Microsoft technology and other systems.