haagenson/vss-sdk

Visual Studio Services Client SDK. JavaScript library for Visual Studio Online extensions.

Visual Studio Services Client SDK

This repo contains core client SDK file and TypeScript declare files needed for developing Visual Studio Online Extensions.

VSS.SDK.js enables an extension to communicate to host to perform operations like initializing, notifying extension is loaded or getting context about the current page on the host.

Getting started

• Add this line: <script src="sdk/scripts/VSS.SDK.js"></script>
• Using npm install vss-sdk
• Using bower install vss-sdk

Usage

Next step is initializing the extension using two options below:

1. Implicit handshake

     // Initialize
     VSS.init({
   	  usePlatformScripts: true, 
   	  usePlatformStyles: true
     });
     
     // Register callback to get called when initial handshake completed
     VSS.ready(function() {
   	  // Start using VSS
     });

2. Explicit handshake

     // Initialize with explicitNotifyLoaded set to true 
     VSS.init({
         explicitNotifyLoaded: true,
   	  usePlatformScripts: true, 
   	  usePlatformStyles: true
     });
     
     // Perform some async operation here
     doSomeAsyncStuff().then(
         function(result) {
             // Succeeded
             VSS.notifyLoadSucceeded();
             
             // Start using VSS
         },
         function(error) {
             // Failed
             VSS.notifyLoadFailed(error);
         });

Full API reference of VSS.SDK.js can be found at Core Client SDK page.

Types

• Types of VSS.SDK.js are available in typings/vss.d.ts.
• REST Client types are available in typings/tfs.d.ts

Using tsd

Although TypeScript declare files do not exist at DefinitelyTyped repo, they can still be used through tsd.

1. First, make sure that the dependencies are loaded using below command:

• tsd install jquery knockout q --save

2. Next, run below command to get vss-sdk types added to tsd.d.ts:

• tsd link

3. Finally, add only reference to typings/tsd.d.ts in your TypeScript files.