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I am trying to build a nice windows phone application with an HTML front end. I want to use TYPESCRIPT to do my processing onto my html page. There is one javascript function which is crucial for my application to work - window.external.notify

This method isn't created till runtime I assume, so I build a javascript wrapper function to determine if it exists when it is called.

if (window.external.notify != undefined)
    window.external.notify(msg);

The issue is I need to get my Typescript files to see this function. I am using Visual Studio 2012 and I have seen the post - How to use an exported function within the local module The issue is when I just include my javascript file with the function I want to use I get the error TS2095.

error TS2095: Build: Could not find symbol

Any ideas or help or possible SDKs to circumvent this issue?

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You need to tell typescript that this function exists on window.external in order to use it. So : 

interface External{
    notify: Function;
}

if (window.external.notify != undefined)
    window.external.notify("your message");
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I like that solution, I will check that out when I get home. – MrSteamfist Feb 4 '14 at 16:15
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Works great! Thanks a lot. – MrSteamfist Feb 5 '14 at 6:03
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//notif.js

let notify = function(message) {
    alert(message);
}

//test.ts

declare function notify(message: string): any;
if(notify != undefined)
    notify("your message");

Make sure notif.js is loaded first.

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