CSLA .NET

A Home for Your Business Logic

CSLA .NET is a software development framework that helps you build a reusable, maintainable object-oriented business layer for your app.

Created by Rockford Lhotka, this framework reduces the cost of building and maintaining applications.

The framework enables developers to leverage the power of object-oriented design as the basis for creating powerful applications. Business objects based on CSLA automatically gain many advanced features that simplify the creation of Windows, web, service, and mobile interfaces.

CSLA .NET allows great flexibility in object persistence, so business objects can use virtually any data sources available. The framework supports 1-, 2- and n-tier models through the concept of mobile objects. This provides the flexibility to optimize performance, scalability, security and fault tolerance with no changes to code in the UI or business objects.

Supported platforms

• .NET 8, .NET 6, .NET Framework 4.6.2+
• Windows, macOS, Linux, and more
• Kubernetes, containers, Azure, AWS, GCP
• ASP.NET Core: Blazor, Razor Pages, MVC
• MAUI: iOS, Android, macOS, and more
• Uno Platform, Avalonia
• WPF, Windows Forms, UWP, Web Forms

Getting Started

• Getting started with CSLA .NET
• CSLA .NET FAQ

Resources

• CSLA .NET books/videos
• Download CSLA .NET
• CSLA .NET NuGet Package
• Version 5.4.2 API documentation
• Version 6 API documentation

Join the Community

• Discussion forum
• Discord server
• Mastodon
• Follow and use the #cslanet tag in social media

Legacy

• Download old/archived versions of CSLA .NET
• Archived forum content

License

CSLA .NET is copyright Marimer LLC.
Its use is governed by the MIT license.