Define AngularJS directive using TypeScript and $inject mechanism

Question

Recently I started refactoring one of the Angular projects I am working on with TypeScript. Using TypeScript classes to define controllers is very convenient and works well

Answer 1

All options in answers gave me an idea that 2 entities(ng.IDirective and Controller) are too much to describe a component. So I've created a simple wrapper prototype which allows to merge them. Here is a gist with the prototype https://gist.github.com/b1ff/4621c20e5ea705a0f788.