Session about TypeScript and SharePoint by Martin Groblschegg
Short introduction about TypeScript
TypeScript is a free and open source programming language developed by Microsoft. It is a strict superset of JavaScript, and essentially adds optional static typing and class-based object oriented programming to the language. Anders Hejlsberg, lead architect of C#, has worked on development of TypeScript.
TypeScript extends JavaScript syntax, so any existing JavaScript programs work with TypeScript without any changes.
Controversial discussion about the new App Model and very nice experience sharing.
Here are my key questions and thoughts about the session by Christian Groß.
Deployment? What are the limits and advantages Security – when you trust you can choose what rights the app has. Technology independent (Coose what every technology you want, e.g. .NET version) Life cycle – when you update you app you have to update the app on each subscriber web.
Peter Holpar showed us how to extend the Visual Studio Tools for SharePoint.
Implementation The creation of a Visual Studio Extension is basically a custom class that implements some interfaces. The biggest problem is that the documentation is not that good – Peter told us that it needs a lot of debugging to get things working.
PreReqs Get the Visual Studio 2012/2013 SDK and you need, of course, an installed SharePoint because of the assemblies.
