Prevent Visual Studio from trying to parse typescript

Question

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.

Answer 1

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.