![]() It is based in Paris, France, and has a portfolio of products with more than 25,000 customers in over 75 countries. Userware is a software company founded in 2007 by two experts in Microsoft technologies. OpenSilver 1.1 is available for download at: OpenSilver applications run on every modern browser, across all platforms, including iOS, Android, Windows, MacOS, and Linux. The development of OpenSilver was motivated by the team’s strong belief that developers should not be compelled to rewrite existing applications because of a change in the underlying stack. The project is hosted publicly on GitHub, and is actively developed by a large team of full-time developers, funded by Userware - which provides support and migration services -, and corporations of all sizes investing in the technology to maintain their line-of-business applications. Migrated applications preserve the look and functionality of the original ones, and can run securely on all browsers without requiring a plugin. Over 99% of Silverlight code can be ported to OpenSilver without any code changes. NET skills and focus on new improvements instead. It provides a 3 to 5 times faster alternative to rewriting Silverlight applications, letting developers leverage their. OpenSilver is a modern, plugin-free, open-source reimplementation of Silverlight, capable of running large, complex legacy applications, as well as newly written C# and XAML applications. VB.NET support is expected to come in OpenSilver 2.0, planned to be released early 2023. As we are flooded with requests for assistance to migrate VB.NET Silverlight applications, we believe that this feature will find a lot of interest in the Microsoft developer community.” “It will throw a lifeline to the huge number of Visual Basic developers that are out there, and that are sad to see their favorite programming language being progressively abandoned. “This will make OpenSilver the only technology out there that supports VB.NET and XAML to build web apps”, says Albani. With this release, Userware has been working on laying the groundwork for an upcoming innovation: supporting VB.NET in the browser. ![]() Some portions of their applications now run even faster in OpenSilver than in their original Silverlight version.” VB.NET Support Coming Next ![]() “We’ve observed this while porting Silverlight business apps to OpenSilver for our clients. “On average, we improved performance by up to 3 times” says Albani. ![]() NET 7 support, and several major optimizations have led to a significant improvement of overall performance. Most Telerik UI components now work flawlessly, including: Thanks to better support for low-level Silverlight APIs, the full source code of “Telerik UI for Silverlight” can now be compiled and run with OpenSilver. Support for the Telerik UI suite of controls has also been improved. The new 1.1 release adds support for even more libraries, including: Last year’s 1.0 release of OpenSilver already supported most of the popular Silverlight libraries, including RIA Services, PRISM, MEF, Unity, OData, MVVM Light, and Newtonsoft. Support for Additional Third-Party Libraries, including Telerik UI “Some clients have even asked us to make changes to their code on purpose, just to distinguish the migrated version from the original one.” “Applications migrated from Silverlight now render almost identically, at pixel-perfect level” says Giovanni Albani, CEO of Userware, the company behind OpenSilver.
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