SEATTLE, USA: DotNetNuke Corporation, the creators of DotNetNuke development framework, today announced a deeper collaboration with CodePlex, Microsoft's premier open source project hosting website.

Beginning with the DotNetNuke 4.9.1 and 5.0.0 product releases, DotNetNuke is now leveraging CodePlex's expansive infrastructure for its core product distribution.

"Over the past year we have witnessed CodePlex's strong commitment to open source projects on the Microsoft platform," said Scott Willhite, co-founder and community director of DotNetNuke Corporation.

"After researching the multitude of open source project hosting services available, we have concluded that CodePlex provides the most reliable and dependable infrastructure, cleanest user experience, most advanced project administration tools, and highest commitment to future innovation. We highly appreciate the cooperation we have received from the CodePlex team to date and look forward to building a mutually beneficial long-term relationship," he addded.

"We are excited to welcome DotNetNuke to the CodePlex community," said Sara Ford, CodePlex program manager, Microsoft. "As the leading open source web application framework for ASP.NET, we're looking forward to partnering with them to promote open source development on the Microsoft platform. We're also looking forward to hearing the feedback from the DotNetNuke community for improving the open source development experience on CodePlex."

DotNetNuke will utilize CodePlex for download infrastructure, bandwidth, and metrics reporting for its core product offerings. Prior to making the switch to CodePlex, DotNetNuke had previously been leveraging services from SourceForge.Net.