Prevent Visual Studio from trying to parse typescript

Issue

Working on a project using Visual Studio as my IDE. It has an API component written in C#, and a webserver component that uses TypeScript.

I am using webpack to deal with the typescript compilation and would like to remove the Visual Studio build step from the typescript files.

Normally I wouldn't care if it was building them, but I am using Typescript > 1.8.4 which has language features that Visual Studio cannot understand which is making Visual Studio throw errors and prevent compilation. I found a workaround for this in this github issue thread but I have other developers cross team who are working on this and trying to coordinate a hack to make code among them will not work.

I have also tried removing the typescript imports line from the .csproj file, but whenever I add a new ts file, it adds the line back in.

Is there a way to completely shut down the typescript compilation/parsing step in Visual Studio and prevent it from coming back?

This in in VS 2015.

Solution

You can disable typescript compilation by editing the .csproj file to contain the following:

<TypeScriptCompileBlocked>true</TypeScriptCompileBlocked>

That should disable all typescript compilation within VS 2015.

Answered By - Sam Storie