Exception: Can't bind to 'ngFor' since it isn't a known native property

Question

What am I doing wrong?

import {bootstrap, Component} from 'angular2/angular2'

@Component({
  selector: 'conf-talks',
  template: `<div *ngFor="talk of talks">
     {{talk.title}} by {{talk.speaker}}
     <p>{{talk.description}}
   </div>`
})
class ConfTalks {
  talks = [ {title: 't1', speaker: 'Brian', description: 'talk 1'},
            {title: 't2', speaker: 'Julie', description: 'talk 2'}];
}
@Component({
  selector: 'my-app',
  directives: [ConfTalks],
  template: '<conf-talks></conf-talks>'
})
class App {}
bootstrap(App, [])

The error is

EXCEPTION: Template parse errors:
Can't bind to 'ngFor' since it isn't a known native property
("<div [ERROR ->]*ngFor="talk of talks">

Answer 1

I missed let in front of talk:

<div *ngFor="let talk of talks">

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Note that as of beta.17 usage of #... to declare local variables inside of structural directives like NgFor is deprecated. Use let instead.

<div *ngFor="#talk of talks"> now becomes <div *ngFor="let talk of talks">

Original answer:

I missed # in front of talk:

<div *ngFor="#talk of talks">

It is so easy to forget that #. I wish the Angular exception error message would instead say:
you forgot that # again.