New 'Plex' for Microsoft's shared code

InternetNews | at | by Mike

Microsoft is taking the wraps off a new community development site for its shared and open source code initiatives.

The CodePlex development site (http://codeplex.com), currently in Beta, may well supplant Microsoft's projects on the open source software repository SourceForge.net site and its own GotDotnet site.

Nothing is official about moving current projects to the new development site. But Microsoft's bloggers are running the discussion up a flagpole, especially about moving its Windows Installer XML project, which is currently hosted on Sourceforge.net.