What's New and Roadmap

 

Recent Developments, Changelog, and Nightly builds:

The OpenSilver team is very active, pushing dozens of commits every month.

• Changelog: To see the latest commits, please visit the History of the 'develop' branch on GitHub
   
• Update on the upcoming VB.NET support: A Private Preview of OpenSilver 2.0 with VB.NET support is now available for download! Please contact us to get the download link
   
• Latest NuGet packages: Nightly builds of the OpenSilver NuGet package can be found on MyGet here. To easily use the latest nightly builds in your project, please refer to "How to get the latest preview version of OpenSilver".

• Last major announcement: OpenSilver 1.1 is out! (read what's new here) (October 4, 2022)
   
• Stable release builds of the OpenSilver NuGet package are available on NuGet here.

 

Community:

• OpenSilver on Twitter
• Issues on GitHub
• Podcasts: Interviews with the Userware CEO on DotNetRocks:
  • Episode 1769 | Dec 9, 2021 | OpenSilver Ships with Giovanni Albani (podcast)
  • Episode 1698 | July 30, 2020 | OpenSilver with Giovanni Albani (podcast)
• [Legacy] CSHTML5-related sites (note: CSHTML5 is a sister product that shares some of the same code - many features are already in OpenSilver):
  • CSHTML5 UserVoice
  • CSHTML5 Forums

 

Roadmap:   

• [May/June 2023] - OpenSilver 1.2
  • New optional "Blazor for OpenSilver" component to add support for Razor and Blazor components in OpenSilver!
    • You will soon be able to mix and match .XAML and .Razor files in the same project
    • Leverage the large ecosystem of Blazor 3rd-party libraries without the need for any interop
    • Seamlessly integrate Blazor controls within your XAML, including Radzen (free), Telerik UI for Blazor, DevExpress Blazor UI, Syncfusion Blazor Components, and many more
    • After migrating a legacy app from Silverlight, you can now further modernize it using Blazor
  • Support for .NET 7 in all application projects (instead of .NET Standard 2.0)
  • 2x faster Simulator
  • Improved overall performance and memory allocation
  • Dozens of improvements and bug fixes (we'll post the full changelog soon - for now you can read the Commit History)
     
• [Aug/Sept 2023] - OpenSilver 2.0
  • UPDATE: A Private Preview of v2.0 with VB.NET support is now available for download! Please contact us to get the download link
  • VB.NET Support (in addition to C#) will turn OpenSilver into the only tool available to build Web apps using VB.NET and XAML
     
• 2023-2025:
  • XAML Designer!
  • Gallery of ready-to-use controls created by wrapping popular JS libraries
  • NET CLI support
  • macOS support
  • "Business Application" project template to easily get started with RIA Services
  • Improved support for migrating WPF applications (in addition to Silverlight)
  • Support for Microsoft LightSwitch (note: our current approach is to reimplement it because we don't have the source code... let us know if you think you might be able to help!)
  • F# support to create web apps with F# and XAML
  • The awesome PivotViewer control will make a comeback :)
  • More extensive examples, case studies, and cool demos
  • And lots of other great new features... Stay tuned!

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Older Announcements:

• Check out our All-Inclusive Migration Service FAQ
• OpenSilver 1.0 has been released! (October 2021) Read the Official Announcement - Press Release (PDF) - Press Room
• Introducing the Silverlight Migration Support Plan
• Success stories - see some applications that have been migrated from Silverlight to OpenSilver
• Introducing the OpenSilver Beta (September 2021): Read the Official Announcement - Press Release (PDF) - Press Room
• The first version of the OpenSilver documentation is online. You can read the "internals" page to learn about the inner workings, or search the full API reference. When viewing the reference of a class, you can click "View Source" in the top-right corner to jump to the class C# implementation on GitHub.