Tracking down ScrewTurn Wiki

Back in 2012, the world was shocked by news that ScrewTurn Wiki would not be developed any further.

The universe of .Net-based open-source wikis was small then, and it is even smaller today.

Time to find out what happened to the original STW source code. I tracked down a couple of versions of the original STW3, as well as successors:

Compilation and initial startup showed the following results:

Version	.Net Version	VS Version	License	compiled	run test
3.0.5.610	3.5	12 (2013)	GPL V2	VS 2013	ok
3.0.5.629	3.5	11 (2010)	GPL V2	VS 2013	ok
3.0.6.630	4.5	12 (2013)	GPL V2	VS 2013	fails to load sql page provider
3.1.0.0	4.7.2	15 (2017)	GPL V2	VS 2017	fails to load sql provider
4.0.5.145	4.0	11 (2010)	GPL V2	VS 2017 with Azure SDK	ok
6.0.0.0	4.6	14 (2015)	GPL V3	VS 2017 with Azure SDK	ok (run as site)

Comments:

VS Version is the version of Visual Studio the original code was developed with, while compiled shows the Visual Studio version I used to compile the code.
Versions 3.0.6.630 and 3.1.0.0 compiled and ran, but did not load the SQL Providers.
Versions 4 and above reference Azure libraries. Since the Azure SDK from Visual Studio 2010 is not available anymore, I used Visual Studio 2017 with its Azure SDK.
Version 6 is an ASP.Net MVC application. All previous versions are ASP.Net.
Version 6 requires ScrewTurn Wiki to run as an IIS site due to lack of application-relative paths in code and markup. All previous versions also run as IIS applications inside an IIS site.

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