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The new T4 Templates for ASP.NET MVC have been released on CodePlex now ... http://blogs.msdn.com/davidebb/archive/2009/06/26/the-mvc-t4-template-is-now-up-on-codeplex-and-it-does-change-your-code-a-bit.aspx

The CodePlex Foundation was created as a forum in which open source communities and the software development community can come together with the shared goal of increasing participation in open source community projects. The CodePlex Foundation will complement existing open source foundations and organizations, providing a forum in which best practices and shared understanding can be established by a broad group of participants, both software companies and open source communities. Initial funding for the Foundation comes from Microsoft Corporation.

ColorCode is the syntax highlighting code which supports CodePlex

ColorCode is the syntax highlighting code which supports CodePlex -- will someone PLEASE write a PowerShell language for it and donate it to them?

I asked him afterward if he would be interested in helping update the releases on Codeplex and he kindly agreed, in fact the new bits on codeplex and release notes were put together by Erik, so be sure to thank him for that. Hopefully this is just the first step in getting that larger support base I've been angling for.

The Common Service Locator library contains a shared interface abstraction over IoC containers and service locators.

An excellent plugin for Eclipse brings you integrated source-control/bug-management ... and it's free for use with CodePlex!

Microsoft Research's Singularity project is an academic project which created a fully managed OS in C# ... it's now on CodePlex under a sort-of academic not-for-profit license.

Microsoft an ASP.Net MVC "Sample" (or is it a starter kit?) source code that can be used by Web developers to build blog engines into sites ... it's called "Oxite" and it's the software running the blogs on MIX Online. http://www.codeplex.com/oxite

PTVS is a free/OSS plugin that turns Visual Studio into a Python IDE. PTVS supports CPython, IronPython, editing, browsing, Intellisense, mixed Python/C++ debugging, profiling, HPC clusters, multiple REPL's, IPython, Django, and cloud computing with client libraries for Windows, Linux and MacOS. This is an officially supported product from Microsoft's Developer Division.

Scripted PowerShell Automated Deployment Engine simplifies the process of standing up a new SQL Server instance; applying standard OS pre-configurations, installing SQL Server, and then applying post-configurations and creating standard objects.

The F# PowerPack is a collection of libraries and tools for F#, provided by the F# team at Microsoft, but which is not part of the core F# release. The PowerPack include features such as a basic Matrix library and supporting math types, FsLex and FsYacc tools for lexing and parsing, support for using F# with LINQ-based libraries, and a tool for generating HTML documentation from F# libraries.

Blacklight is a UX focused code sharing project. Microsoft has released a bunch of technologies that allow designers and developers to work closely together to make beautiful software. This project is a collection of controls, samples, visual assets and ideas that has been put together by User Experience designers and developers to both show you what the technology is capable of (from a UX point of view), and give you code and samples that you can use in your own projects, completely free of charge (see the License tab above).

A collection of controls and templates for WPF projects that haven't made it into the .Net framework ... yet!

A combination address-bar combo-box like the one in Vista's Explorer

Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) is a new library in .NET that enables greater reuse of applications and components ... but it's (currently) licensed under the unacceptable MS-LPL ... where that extra L stands for "lock-in"