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A comment on OpenSilver – a plugin-free, open-source reimplementation of Silverlight.

Re:OpenSilver – a plugin-free, open-source reimplementation ... by rootlocus on Monday March 09, 2020 @02:57PM (#22528494)
> OpenSilver is maintained by Userware and is not affiliated with Microsoft.

Click download

> Please sign with your Microsoft account:

What gives?

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Re:OpenSilver – a plugin-free, open-source reimplementation ... by duiker101 on Monday March 09, 2020 @03:29PM (#22528826)
Azure SSO? https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/mana...
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Re:OpenSilver – a plugin-free, open-source reimplementation ... by weare138 on Monday March 09, 2020 @07:59PM (#22531303)
It looks like it's a plugin for Visual Studio and from what I can tell Visual Studio requires a Microsoft account. There's a link to their Github repository and it has the project files for compiling OpenSilver in VS. I think the Microsoft account in required for installing plugins hosted by MS.

https://github.com/cshtml5/CSHTML5

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