making script# samples work?

They all fail for me

The photo one does nothing. I see a text box and a browse button

The other two fail immediately with saying that window.addEventListener is an unknown method

I really bought the vision after watching mix11 talk. But not being able to see the source, there being almost no docs and the samples all fail开发者_开发知识库ing has made me ready to change my mind

Anybody got any suggestion for the samples, or other ways to re-inspire me (I have a LOT of javascript to write)

edit: well I have found that the samples all work in chrome but not IE8!

I think samples are out of date, though didn't even try them since i started using Script#, as i'm only interested in generating scripts in a type safe environment with compile time checking and intellisense.

If you are going to write lots of scripts, ScriptSharp would help you a lot. Even though i have many years of experience with javascript and feel comfortable working with it, when you develop a web application (not just a few pages) with several ten thousands of script lines, it becomes a very tedious work to modify/extend classes, options, libraries.

Lets list some pros/cons:

PROS:

• Intellisense
• Type safety (harder to pass wrong argument types to functions etc.)
• Compile time syntax checking (e.g. no extra comma errors, headaches in IE)
• Will feel safer to change code, add features (my number 1 feature)
• Can import any existing script plugin, and you don't have to memorize their options once you did.
• Familiar object oriented design (it maps to simple prototype inheritance in JS)
• Generated script almost 1-1 matches original source

CONS:

• Don't have a steep learning curve but need to learn basics
• Takes some time to import your existing code
• Might miss some C#3/JS features like object initializer, implicitly typed variables, extension methods etc. This means you will have to write a few more lines than matching JS code.
• May cause some addiction and reverting back to write plain scripts will feel harder.
• Don't have a big community like GWT (though its improving with recently setup Git repository etc)

The MIX11 code and slides were published here:

http://www.nikhilk.net/ScriptSharp-MIX11.aspx