<s>
CodePlex	B-Protocol
was	O
a	O
forge	B-Protocol
website	O
by	O
Microsoft	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
While	O
it	O
was	O
active	O
,	O
it	O
allowed	O
shared	O
development	O
of	O
open-source	B-Application
software	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Its	O
features	O
included	O
wiki	B-Protocol
pages	O
,	O
source	B-Architecture
control	I-Architecture
based	O
on	O
Mercurial	B-Protocol
,	O
TFVC	O
,	O
Subversion	B-Application
or	O
Git	B-Application
,	O
discussion	O
forums	O
,	O
issue	B-Application
tracking	I-Application
,	O
project	O
tagging	O
,	O
RSS	O
support	O
,	O
statistics	O
,	O
and	O
releases	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
While	O
CodePlex	B-Protocol
once	O
encompassed	O
a	O
wide	O
variety	O
of	O
projects	O
,	O
including	O
SQL	B-Application
Server	I-Application
,	O
WPF	B-Device
and	O
Windows	O
Forms-related	O
projects	O
,	O
its	O
major	O
activities	O
were	O
focused	O
on	O
.NET	B-Application
Framework	I-Application
(	O
including	O
ASP.NET	B-Application
)	O
and	O
SharePoint	B-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
most	O
prominent	O
and	O
used	O
project	O
that	O
was	O
born	O
inside	O
CodePlex	B-Protocol
,	O
the	O
AJAX	O
Control	O
Toolkit	O
,	O
is	O
a	O
joint	O
project	O
between	O
the	O
community	O
and	O
Microsoft	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
In	O
2010	O
,	O
an	O
unrelated	O
CodePlex	B-Protocol
Foundation	O
was	O
renamed	O
Outercurve	O
Foundation	O
to	O
clear	O
up	O
confusion	O
that	O
there	O
was	O
a	O
direct	O
relationship	O
between	O
the	O
foundation	O
and	O
CodePlex	B-Protocol
,	O
which	O
is	O
solely	O
owned	O
and	O
run	O
by	O
Microsoft	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Since	O
January	O
22	O
,	O
2010	O
,	O
Mercurial	B-Protocol
distributed	O
source	B-Architecture
control	I-Architecture
system	O
has	O
been	O
supported	O
as	O
well	O
,	O
and	O
this	O
support	O
has	O
been	O
enhanced	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
March	O
21	O
,	O
2012	O
,	O
CodePlex	B-Protocol
announced	O
the	O
support	O
of	O
Git	B-Application
as	O
a	O
source	B-Architecture
control	I-Architecture
option	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
On	O
March	O
31	O
,	O
2017	O
,	O
Microsoft	O
announced	O
the	O
discontinuation	O
of	O
CodePlex	B-Protocol
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
original	O
plan	O
was	O
to	O
make	O
CodePlex	B-Protocol
read-only	O
in	O
October	O
2017	O
before	O
finally	O
shutting	O
it	O
down	O
on	O
December	O
15	O
,	O
2017	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Microsoft	O
partnered	O
with	O
GitHub	B-Application
to	O
allow	O
projects	O
to	O
be	O
migrated	O
to	O
the	O
service	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
projects	O
could	O
be	O
downloaded	O
or	O
transferred	O
to	O
GitHub	B-Application
or	O
a	O
similar	O
place	O
.	O
</s>
