What's New and Roadmap

Recent Developments and Changelog

To see the latest commits, please visit the History of the 'develop' branch on GitHub:

https://github.com/OpenSilver/OpenSilver/commits/develop

Latest NuGet Packages

Please visit the OpenSilver NuGet package history at:

https://www.nuget.org/packages/OpenSilver

Community

• OpenSilver on Twitter
• CSHTML5 UserVoice (note: CSHTML5 is a sister product that shares some of the same code - many features are already in OpenSilver)
• CSHTML5 Forums (note: CSHTML5 is a sister product that shares some of the same code)
• Issues on GitHub

Press and Podcasts

• Press articles about OpenSilver
• Interview with the Userware CEO on DotNetRocks (podcast)

Official Announcements

• NEW! Introducing the Silverlight Migration Accelerator Package
• NEW! The first version of the OpenSilver documentation is now 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.
• Success stories - see some applications that have been migrated from Silverlight to OpenSilver
• Introducing OpenSilver: Read the Official Announcement - Press Release (PDF) - Press Room

Roadmap

Q4 2020:

• Improved runtime performance
  status: coming soon - we noticed a 50% runtime performance improvement when updating to Blazor 3.2, we are working to package this, some breaking changes are expected in the ".Browser" project
• Support for Telerik UI for Silverlight (note: a license from Telerik is required)
  status: simple controls are working, more complex ones are in progress, a demo app will be published soon
• Support for many JS-based libraries (Kendo UI, Syncfusion Essential JS, DevExtreme...)
  status: now supported: Kendo UI Grid and Editor, Syncfusion Spreadsheet and RichTextEditor, DevExtreme DataGrid, SelectBox, Switch, and TextBox - we are working to package these controls
  (note: a license from the component vendor will be required)
• Support for Open RIA Services
  status: we got it working locally, we are now packaging it
• Support for MEF
  status: now supported in the latest OpenSilver - just add a reference to the .NET Standard version of the "System.ComponentModel.Composition" NuGet package
• Support for MVVMLight
  status: now supported with the fork available here - we are going to publish it as a NuGet package
• Improved documentation
  status: the work-in-progress documentation is now available here
• More case studies and success stories

Q1 2021:

• AOT compilation for massively improved performance
  status: expected to be available in .NET 6 Preview in Q1 2021, which OpenSilver will be based on

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