'Prevent Visual Studio from trying to parse typescript

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.

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Solution 1:^[1]

To disable TypeScript compilation altogether for Visual Studio, edit:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v15.0\TypeScript\Microsoft.TypeScript.targets

(Your path might be slightly different depending on your OS/VS version, in that case just search for Microsoft.TypeScript.targets)

And add:

<PropertyGroup>
    <TypeScriptCompileBlocked>True</TypeScriptCompileBlocked> 
</PropertyGroup>

This works for .NET Core projects as well.

Solution 2:^[2]

Sam Storie's answer is a great start and it will stop typescript errors from preventing compilation, but Visual Studio will still report the parsing errors which will prevent the ability to use the built in publishing tools.

To completely remove error reporting in ts, find all import lines in the csproj that reference typescript and set the Condition property to false, make sure to restart VS afterwards:

Example:

<Import Project="$(MSBuildExtensionsPath32)\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v$(VisualStudioVersion)\TypeScript\Microsoft.TypeScript.targets" Condition="false" />

Solution 3:^[3]

It seems that the errors are triggered by IntelliSense and one can remove IntelliSense errors by simply filtering the list.

In case that other solutions doesn't help this is the key to clean up the error list, at least temporarily.

Solution 4:^[4]

Remove / Uncheck Test Javascript Content Files from the Project filter.

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