{"id":5953,"date":"2007-01-19T12:27:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-19T12:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vcblog\/2007\/01\/19\/atl-server-visual-c-shared-source-software\/"},"modified":"2019-02-18T18:54:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T18:54:37","slug":"atl-server-visual-c-shared-source-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/cppblog\/atl-server-visual-c-shared-source-software\/","title":{"rendered":"ATL Server: Visual C++ shared source software"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Visual C++ team is very pleased to announce our plans to release the source code of ATL Server<\/a> as a shared source<\/a> project on CodePlex<\/a> in March 2007. With this release you will now have the opportunity to add all the features and functionality you want to ATL Server and you can even share your expertise and code directly with the ATL community. A main reason for releasing ATL Sever as shared source project is that many ATL Server users would like to see the functionality and services provided by ATL Server expanded and the Visual C++ team, while agreeing with the vision, cannot do justice to these requests while also working on a number of other libraries and tools that we ship. So rather than constrain the functionality of ATL Server  to fit within our product development cycle we know that by releasing the source code that the ATL Server community can move it forward at a greater pace. And we also know how much developers will enjoy cutting their teeth on such a large commercial codebase.<\/p>\n

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ATL Server<\/a> is a library of C++ classes that allow developers to build internet based applications. It provides much of the functionality required to build large scale internet sites, such as SOAP messaging, caching facilities, threading facilities, regular expression processing, management of session-state, performance monitoring, MIME support, integration with IIS and class for interacting with security and cryptographic infrastructure.<\/p>\n

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ATL Server will be released under the Microsoft Limited Permissive License (Ms-LPL)<\/a>.  <\/span>The basic terms of the license indicate:<\/p>\n

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