WinJS.Application.addEventListener vs. WinJS.Application.onActivated

Question

The MSDN documentation shows two options for setting up the onactivated event for Win8 WinJS apps:

WinJS.Application.addEventListener("activated", listenerName);

or

WinJS.Application.onactivated = listenerName;

Do both options behave identically under the hood, or are there reasons to use one approach over the other?

Answer 1

These are the same. "onactivated" is the free onFoo event created by the WinJS Event mixin helpers. You can use either with impunity.

I prefer the addEventListener pattern myself.