TypeScript included with Visual Studio 2013 Update 2

Post by radicalbyte » Fri, Feb 28, 2014, 7:10 PM UTC

judah wrote: post #17

While baking TypeScript into Visual Studio isn't a certainty of its future success (e.g. Silverlight), it is a good indicator of Microsoft's commitment to the language. As a former CoffeeScript user, I love TypeScript: it's a more consistent language driven by a real language designer, Anders Heijlsberg, author of Turbo Pascal, Delphi, C#, and now TypeScript. I am building 2 major projects using it: - RavenDB Managem…

Post by stewbrew » Fri, Feb 28, 2014, 7:29 PM UTC

brokenparser wrote: post #14

kackontent wrote: post #4

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My only gripe - VS is way too expensive, for my pocket at least. And you need VS to program in TS, Intellisense is that good. Sure, you can go with Express edition but then you don't have node.js extension - which kinda make the whole endeavour bit pointless (again, for me at least). Wish they would bring prices to the level of, for example, those of Jetbrains, or made node.js extension working with Express.

I write TypeScript in vim and don't wish to run proprietary software, save for a few games on a machine dedicated for that purpose. It works simply by adding this line on the top or bottom: /* vim:set filetype=javascript: */ You can add other options in there as well, so it's easy for others to match your indentation style for instance.

Post by GFischer » Fri, Feb 28, 2014, 7:32 PM UTC

xradionut wrote: post #57

GFischer wrote: post #8

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If you have your own startup or small company or are a student, Microsoft has several options aimed at you: - BizSpark for startups( http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/ ) - DreamSpark for students ( https://www.dreamspark.com/ ) and I think there are other options if you contact someone at your local Microsoft office. I've just started using BizSpark (for a side project with 2 friends, so the "startup" term is a bit l…

The first hit/dose is free. On the other hand you do have companies that do make millions that are bailing on certain aspects of Microsoft tools and servers due licensing costs and increases. I've been involved in IT budgeting for almost two decades and the CFOs don't always sign the check just because it's an IBM/Microsoft/Oracle solution. Software cost for my side projects: $0

Post by jongalloway2 » Fri, Feb 28, 2014, 7:38 PM UTC

NicoJuicy wrote: post #30

Now support for Less, Sass in the IDE instead of using Extensions ;)

Post by rat87 » Fri, Feb 28, 2014, 8:05 PM UTC

DCoder wrote: post #45

judah wrote: post #24

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Tooling is a big boon with TypeScript: Go to Definition, Find All References, Refactor->Rename, debug your TypeScript in Visual Studio. You're right that if you don't use the tooling, TypeScript is of lesser value. Using things like classes, lambdas, modules syntax is still there, of course, and is quite a bit nicer than JS equivalents.

Be careful with that if you use data-binding in your templates, such as Knockout.js . Visual Studio doesn't know the types of your viewmodels, so those templates are not indexed and not subject to refactoring.