Most Active Open Source Projects in Codeplex
The author lists the 25 most active and popular open source projects in Microsoft’s Codeplex open source hosting site, starting with the AJAX Control Toolkit, which eases the construction and consumption of rich client-side controls and extenders built on the Microsoft AJAX Library and ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions. Other notable projects include GoTraxx, a program written in C# that plays the game of Go; the SharpMap map rendering and display engine that boasts ease of use; the lightweight, easily extensible and modifiable BlogEngine.NET; and the VMukti P2P Multipoint Real-time Rich Media Collaboration Platform, which is a distributed, P2P, Web 2.0, grid computing, unified communications platform for Web, phone, and IM rich media collaboration and conferencing. Another significant open source project is Ajax.NET Professional, an AJAX framework for Microsoft ASP.NET that will generate proxy classes on client-side JavaScript to initiate techniques on the Web server with full data type support operating on all common Web browsers, including mobile devices. Also listed is Terminals, a multi-tab terminal client that makes it easier to link simultaneously to multiple terminal servers/remote desktops. DDotNet is a “Development for .NET” framework designed to aid all developers to produce better applications, while QuickGraph 2.0 supplies generic directed graph structures and associated algorithms. Additional projects include a new deployment of the Python programming language on the .Net framework (IronPython); a C#-drafted content management platform supported on the Microsoft .NET platform (umbraco); and a series of best practices, templates, Web components, tools, and source code that allows virtually anybody to construct a community Web site based on SharePoint technology for practically any group that shares a common interest (Community Kit for SharePoint).
PlentyofCode (08/14/07)
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