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OpenSilver 2.0 Launches with VB.NET Support and Over
100 New Features!

Update October 27, 2023: v2.0.1.1 hotfix released.

Recent Developments, Changelog, and Nightly builds:

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

  • Stable release builds of the OpenSilver NuGet package are available on NuGet here.

Community:

Roadmap:

  • 2024-2025: 
    • The Live XAML Preview that was introduced in OpenSilver 2.0 will progressively become a full-fledged WYSIWYG designer with drag-and-drop 
    • New Documentation
    • Improved NET CLI support
    • Improved macOS support
    • Improved VS Code support
    • 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!)
    • Ability to import Blazor components inside your XAML-based OpenSilver application
    • F# support to create web apps with F# and XAML
    • The awesome PivotViewer control by Microsoft Labs will make a comeback 🙂
    • New releases of XR#, the 3D and AR/VR toolkit built atop OpenSilver
    • More extensive examples, case studies, and cool demos
    • And lots of other great new features… Stay tuned!

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