VSTS Specified TypeScript compiler not found

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Jules picture Jules · Jun 23, 2017 · Viewed 8.7k times · Source

I am using VSTS for a project that is using TypeScript. We have a CI Build configured and suddenly that one stopped working today. Yesterday all was fine, today they are all failing.

Looking into the build logs I discovered that it's not finding the TypeScript compiler that we specified:

Warning : Your project specifies TypeScriptToolsVersion 2.1, but a matching compiler was not found. The latest available TypeScript compiler will be used (2.4). To remove this warning, install the TypeScript 2.1 SDK or update the value of TypeScriptToolsVersion.

So all of a sudden it starts compiling with TypeScript 2.4 and we have some code that's not compatible with that version (Promises).

I have defined the TypeScript Tools Version in our .csproj as

<TypeScriptToolsVersion>2.1</TypeScriptToolsVersion>

and that seems to be working as I read in the build logs that it tried using that one first.

Any idea what caused VSTS suddenly to "forget" about TypeScript 2.1 and how I can fix this? I could not find any update notification or anything.

Answer

msrahate picture msrahate · Apr 22, 2020

Right click on Project and click properties Click on TypeScriptBuild and Select Use Latest Available

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