LightSwitch now supported in OpenSilver 2.2!
Introducing F# support with OpenSilver 2.1!
Plus, check out the newly migrated Silverlight Toolkit Samples app.
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OpenSilver 2.0 Launches with VB.NET Support, Live XAML Preview, and Over 100 New Features!
Recent Developments, Changelog, and Nightly builds:
The OpenSilver team is very active, pushing dozens of commits every month.
- Latest VSIX: Version 2.2.0.0 released on April 30, 2024. Download it here.
- Changelog: To see the latest commits, please visit the History of the ‘develop’ branch on GitHub
- 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“.
- Stable release builds of the OpenSilver NuGet package are available on NuGet here.
Community:
- OpenSilver on Twitter
- Issues on GitHub
- Podcasts: DotNetRocks Interview of Giovanni Albani, CEO of Userware:
- 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 the ancestor of OpenSilver):
Roadmap:
- 2024-2025:
- The Live XAML Preview that was introduced in OpenSilver 2.0 will progressively become a full-fledged UI designer with drag-and-drop
- New Documentation
- Improved NET CLI support
- Improved macOS IDE support
- Improved VS Code support
- Rider support
- .NET MAUI integration for building apps for iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows. You’ll be able to easily create hybrid apps that call native APIs and quickly deploy to App Stores
- Improved support for migrating WPF applications (in addition to Silverlight)
- Ability to import Blazor components inside your XAML-based OpenSilver application
- 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!
Excited about our upcoming features? Accelerate their delivery by partnering with us through co-funding options. As an open-source project, OpenSilver offers the opportunity to share the costs of development. For an estimate and to begin collaboration, please get in touch with us.
Older Announcements:
- Check out our All-Inclusive Migration Service FAQ
- Introducing OpenSilver 2.1: F# Meets XAML for Advanced Web App Development (February 6, 2024)
- OpenSilver 2.0 Launches with VB.NET Support and Over 100 New Features (read what’s new here) (October 16, 2023)
- OpenSilver 1.1 is out! (read what’s new here) (October 4, 2022)
- 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.