the release notes look great:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/typescript/archive/2013/01/21/announcing-typescript-0-8-2.aspx

How is the following feature implemented?

The compiler service can now be replaced in the TypeScript for Visual Studio 2012 plugin.  This makes it easier to leverage the Visual Studio TypeScript extension with newer compiler builds from CodePlex or from experimental forks....

@JonTurner,

You guys should ask to have the TypeScript blog added to the "Developer Tools Blogs" section on MSDN. I never even knew about this TypeScript blog until today.

You just need to overwrite the typescriptservices.js file found in the TypeScript extension folder (somewhere under Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0). That file gets built when you do a "jake local" build in the repo.

There's a blog post up now that walks through how to do this:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/typescript/archive/2013/01/29/trying-the-latest-typescript-build.aspx