A short message to inform you about the X# 3 progress.

We had announced X# 3 for April, but unfortunately we need a few more weeks. Beta 3 has been released last week and is looking very good. There are a few minor things that we need to look at before releasing X# 3.

We now expect to release it around May 15. We hope / plan to also release new versions of ReportPro 2 and 3 as well as Xs2Ado at the same time, so when you use these products you can migrate to X# 3 without problems. However, we're not sure about the status of bBrowser. If you have the source code you can recompile it yourself. There should be very few problems. We'll contact the owner of bBrowser to ask about his plans for X# 3..

Next week we will publish a detailed list of the changes in X# 3 compared with the latest version of X# 2.

Please note that there will be NO public version of X# 3. If you want it you need to become a FOX subscriber. You can become a subscriber for EUR 499,50 (for a half year of support) or EUR 999 (for a full year of support).

The files from the presentations at our Summit in Potsdam are now available for download:
https://www.xsharp.eu/itm-downloads?folder=general%252FPotsdam2026

Please note that these are only available for attendees. And some of the examples require XSharp 3!

A summary of the roadmap that was presented during the closing session

• A release version of X# 3 is expected in April 2026. This supports:
  • VS 2026 support
  • .Net 8,9,10 support, but also still .Net Framework
  • VS /Ms build project files are so-called "SDK" style projects
  • The compiler is based on the C# 13 compiler
  • Several new language features, such as File-wide namespaces, Global Usings, FileScoped classes, Record classes, Record structures and more
  Read more …XSharp Summit 2026 - Downloads and more

The XSharp Summit 2026 in Potsdam, Germany, our 5th annual meeting, is now over. It was great meeting and talking to many familiar faces and also some new ones as well! There were several sessions on diverse and interesting topics delivered by dev team members (including Irwin, our new welcomed member) and external speakers, all very well received!

Session material (to be downloaded from attendees) and photos from the event will follow up soon.

We're looking forward to meeting you all again in our next summit, more info on that will be announced in the coming weeks, as well a summary of the plans for the future that was presented in the closing session of the event.

It has taken a while, but X# 3 is almost ready. We will be demonstrating it at the X# Summit in Potsdam later this month. We will start a Beta test for X# 3 next week.
Please mail robert@xsharp.eu if you want to be included in the beta.

Since X# 3 has some breaking changes over X# 2, you will have to be prepared to set up a test environment (different computer or VM) to make sure that it does not interfere with your daily work with X# 2. We expect active participation from testers and meaningful reports for any issues that you find.
We will be running the beta on a private forum on this website.

It has been fairly quiet on the "Release" front since last Summer.
That does not mean that we have been doing nothing. On the contrary
We are working day and night to prepare the X# 3 release that will support the next version of Dot Net  (.Net 10 and further) and also current and future versions of Visual Studio.
The support for the new SDK style projects inside Visual Studio has proven to be more complicated than we liked / hoped.
Some of you have already tested X# with the new Visual Studio 2026 and discovered that most of it works as expected. However, there are a few issues with this new version.

If you are a subscriber and find a problem with X# 2, then please contact us with a bug report. We will try to resolve the problem and will send you (an) updated DLL(s). We do NOT plan to release a new installer with a new version of X# 2. 

We expect to release the first beta of X# 3 in the first quarter of 2026. As you can imagine, we want to show it at our Summit in February 2026 as well. Maybe not the release version, but at least a very mature beta version.

We have published the preliminary list of speakers, sessions and session schedule for the XSharp Summit in Potsdam, February 2026.

You find the information here

What is not on the list is a session by Peter Stephan d from COMSys. He will demonstrate the tool that his company has created to help convert Visual FoxPro applications from Visual FoxPro to X#.
This will probably be part of the Freak Night sessions.