TypeScript 1.0 Release Candidate for Visual Studio 2012 and 2013 Now Available for Download

Microsoft has released the Release Candidate (RC) of TypeScript 1.0. TypeScript 1.0 RC focuses on a few key areas based on user feedback on 0.9.5: a simpler type system, an improved lib.d.ts, and a more natural declaration merge order. This release also includes a number of bug fixes.

Overview
TypeScript is a language for application-scale JavaScript. TypeScript adds optional types, classes, and modules to JavaScript. TypeScript supports tools for large-scale JavaScript applications for any browser, for any host, on any OS. TypeScript compiles to clean, readable, standards-based JavaScript. Try it out at TypeScript Playground.

TypeScript for Visual Studio 2012 and 2013 provides a TypeScript editor and compiler for Visual Studio 2012 and 2013.

What's new in TypeScript 1.0 RC for Visual Studio 2012 and 2013?
TypeScript 1.0 RC represents the culmination of this work as a feature-complete TypeScript 1.0 language with a spec-conformant compiler and a production-level language service capable of working with codebases with hundreds of thousands of lines of code.

Among the usual set of bugfixes, TypeScript 1.0RC focuses on a few key areas based on user feedback on 0.9.5: a simpler type system, an improved lib.d.ts, and a more natural declaration merge order.

Full details about changes that are in this version of TypeScript are available at: Announcing TypeScript 1.0RC

Download TypeScript 1.0 RC for Visual Studio 2012 and 2013
The link in this section correspond to files available for this download.

• TypeScript 1.0 RC for Visual Studio 2012 and 2013

TypeScript for Visual Studio 2012 will install when Visual Studio 2012 is not installed, and provide the TypeScript compiler. To integrate the development tools after installing Visual Studio 2012, you must reinstall TypeScript for Visual Studio 2012.

For instructions on using TypeScript, see the TypeScript tutorial.

System requirements
Supported operating systems: Windows 7, Windows 8

• Visual Studio Ultimate 2012
• Visual Studio Premium 2012
• Visual Studio Professional 2012
• Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web
• Visual Studio Ultimate 2013
• Visual Studio Premium 2013
• Visual Studio Professional 2013
• Visual Studio Express 2013 for Web

TypeScript Releases History

• TypeScript 1.0 RC - February 25, 2014
• TypeScript 0.9.5 - November 5, 2013
• TypeScript 0.9.1.1 - August 21, 2013
• TypeScript 0.9.1 - August 6, 2013
• TypeScript 0.9.0.1 - June 28, 2013
• TypeScript 0.9.0 - June 18, 2013
• TypeScript 0.8.3.1 - March 29, 2013
• TypeScript 0.8.3 - February 27, 2013
• TypeScript 0.8.2 - January 21, 2013
• TypeScript 0.8.1.1 - December 4, 2012 (debugging fixes for v0.8.1)
• TypeScript 0.8.1 - November 15, 2012
• TypeScript 0.8.0 - October 1, 2012 (first preview release)

Reference:
Announcing TypeScript 1.0RC (Release notes)