TypeScript

Announcing TypeScript 0.9

June 18, 2013 Jun 18, 2013 06/18/13
Jonathan Turner [MS]
Today, we’re excited to be releasing TypeScript 0.9.0.  This release represents the largest update to TypeScript to date, bringing significant changes to the language, compiler and tools.  These span from highly requested new language features like Generics, to a new compiler infrastructure that lays the foundation for ...

Announcing 0.9 early previews

April 22, 2013 Apr 22, 2013 04/22/13
Jonathan Turner [MS]
Today we’re making an early preview available which showcases some of the new features coming in 0.9.0 preview release.  It’s intended for users who wish to try out these features, begin porting existing applications, and who don’t mind a few rough edges in the compiler and language service along the way.  Users who...

Announcing TypeScript 0.8.3.1

April 1, 2013 Apr 1, 2013 04/1/13
Jonathan Turner [MS]
We've released a hotfix to the 0.8.3 TypeScript for Visual Studio 2012 plugin.  The 0.8.3 preview release included a broad range of improvements to the TypeScript experience, but it also included an issue that caused editor performance to degrade significantly in some cases.  The hotfix release (0.8.3.1) addresses this ...

Announcing TypeScript 0.8.3

February 27, 2013 Feb 27, 2013 02/27/13
Jonathan Turner [MS]
Today, we're happy to announce the 0.8.3 preview release of TypeScript.  This release adds incremental polish and bugfixes to the TypeScript compiler, language service, and Visual Studio plugin.  Compiler Improvements In the 0.8.3 preview release, we fixed a few key issues that improve compiler correctness and performance, ...

Trying the Latest TypeScript Build

January 29, 2013 Jan 29, 2013 01/29/13
Ryan Cavanaugh
Starting with release 0.8.2.0, you can now update the TypeScript language services file, the compiled JavaScript that powers most of the TypeScript editor features in Visual Studio. This includes tasks like error reporting, compile-on-save, renaming, go to definition, completion lists, signature help, and others. By updating your TypeScript ...

Walkthrough: Interfaces

January 24, 2013 Jan 24, 2013 01/24/13
Ryan Cavanaugh
When we talk about a type in TypeScript, we mean a collection of things that you can do with a variable (or expression). You might be able to read or write a given property, call a function, use the expression as a constructor, or index into the object. Some objects (like Date) in JavaScript can do nearly all of those! In TypeScript, ...

Announcing TypeScript 0.8.2

January 21, 2013 Jan 21, 2013 01/21/13
Jonathan Turner [MS]
We’re happy to announce the 0.8.2 preview release of TypeScript.  This release has been focused on  addressing key usability feedback and filling in tooling experiences.  Along the way, we’ve also incorporated some of the highest-rated feature requests and bugfixes. JSDoc Support Being able to see API documentation ...

Working on 0.8.2

January 15, 2013 Jan 15, 2013 01/15/13
Jonathan Turner [MS]
We’ve recently branched for the upcoming 0.8.2 release of TypeScript.  Before we talk about what’s new, we wanted to talk a bit about the engineering process that goes into making a release.Going forward, TypeScript development will happen across three types of branches.  Our current two branches of 'master' and 'develop...

Announcing TypeScript 0.8.1.1

December 5, 2012 Dec 5, 2012 12/5/12
Jonathan Turner [MS]
Since releasing TypeScript 0.8.1 a few weeks ago, we have heard a few reports of issues blocking the usage of source-map based debugging.  To address these, today, we’ve made available TypeScript 0.8.1.1, a bugfix release of 0.8.1.  This preview focuses on further refining the debugging experience and addressing rough edges in ...