p.location-badge.
  exported from <a href='../annotations'>angular2/annotations</a>
  defined in <a href="https://github.com/angular/angular/tree/2.0.0-alpha.34/modules/angular2/src/core/annotations/decorators.ts#L51-L104">angular2/src/core/annotations/decorators.ts (line 51)</a>

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  <a href='Directive-var.html'><code>Directive</code></a> factory for creating annotations, decorators or DSL.
  
  ## Example as TypeScript Decorator
  
  ```
  import {Directive} from "angular2/angular2";
  
  @Directive({...})
  class MyDirective {
    constructor() {
      ...
    }
  }
  ```
  
  ## Example as ES5 DSL
  
  ```
  var MyDirective = ng
    .Directive({...})
    .Class({
      constructor: function() {
        ...
      }
    })
  ```
  
  ## Example as ES5 annotation
  
  ```
  var MyDirective = function() {
    ...
  };
  
  MyDirective.annotations = [
    new ng.Directive({...})
  ]
  ```