Part 5 of Andrea Boschin's Series 'Windows Store apps with XAML and HTML': Using Typescript in Win Store apps

Another great article series by Andrea Boschin was started a while ago at SilverlightShow - Windows Store HTML for XAML programmers. And today we publish the next post from this series, check it out:

• Windows Store apps with XAML and HTML: Using Typescript in Windows Store apps

From the author:

I'm pretty sure you agree with me when I say that Javascript is and hard bet for real world applications. No matter it you are very skilled with this expressive language, the danger of introducing bugs is always behind the corner, and too often these are so subtle to result difficult to discover and they become evident only when we get to the production stage. This is mostly because Javascript does ot have a strong type checking, so you can write code that does unwanted assignment from numeric to string or viceversa, but also because it isn't a real object oriented language, so to emulate these paradigms you have to rely on complex structures that make the code very hardly maintainable. These are the primary reasons that gave the start to the new Typescript language project.

Check out the planned table of content for this series:

1. Understanding the Windows Store HTML project structure
2. The layout in HTML for XAML addicted
3. The WinJS Controls
4. The asynchronous programming made by promises
5. Typescript in the Windows Store: deal with Javascript in the real world apps.
6. Writing C# components for the Windows Store HTML apps

Andrea has also authored the following SilverlightShow ebooks:

• Introduction to Windows 8 Metro Part 1
• Introduction to Windows 8 Metro Part 2
• Windows Phone 7.5 Fundamentals
• Windows Phone 7 Data Access Strategies
• Introduction to Windows Phone 7