OpenSilver picks up where Silverlight leaves off

Let us pause for a moment to remember Microsoft Silverlight. The web application framework and alternative to Flash and Java reaches the end of its support life today. Whilst it never had the market penetration of the others, Silverlight had a 15-year lifespan and in 2010 the plug-in was on over 53 percent of browsers. Why are we telling you this? Because developers around the world have built countless Silverlight applications and may now be looking for an alternative. Step forward OpenSilver which offers an alternative to rewriting Silverlight apps. Instead it lets the existing code run on any browser… [Continue Reading]