diff --git a/aurelia-knockout/aurelia-knockout-tests.ts b/aurelia-knockout/aurelia-knockout-tests.ts
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+
+export class ViewModel {
+
+    constructor(private knockoutBindable: KnockoutBindable) {
+    }
+
+    activate(settings: any): void {
+        this.knockoutBindable.applyBindableValues(settings, this);
+        this.knockoutBindable.applyBindableValues(settings, this, true);
+    }
+}
diff --git a/aurelia-knockout/index.d.ts b/aurelia-knockout/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for aurelia-knockout 2.0
+// Project: https://github.com/code-chris/aurelia-knockout
+// Definitions by: Christian Kotzbauer <https://github.com/code-chris>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+
+declare interface KnockoutBindable {
+
+    /**
+     * Applys all values from a data object (usually the activation data) to the corresponding instance fields
+     * in the current view model if they are marked as @bindable. By default all matching values from the data object
+     * are applied. To only apply observable values set the last parameter to `true`. Subscriptions are created
+     * for all Knockout observables in the data object to update the view-model values respectively.
+     *
+     * @param data - the data object
+     * @param target - the target view model
+     * @param applyOnlyObservables - `true` if only observable values should be applied, false by default.
+     */
+  applyBindableValues(data: any, target: any, applyOnlyObservables?: boolean): void;
+}
diff --git a/aurelia-knockout/tsconfig.json b/aurelia-knockout/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": [
+            "es6",
+            "dom"
+        ],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": false,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
+    },
+    "files": [
+        "index.d.ts",
+        "aurelia-knockout-tests.ts"
+    ]
+}
diff --git a/aurelia-knockout/tslint.json b/aurelia-knockout/tslint.json
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+{ "extends": "../tslint.json" }