Here’s the solution to upgrading TypeScript in Visual Studios 2015: Download the TypeScript EXE release from the following website: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48593 Click the details to view other releases: In this case I want to download 1.6.0 Beta Download the exe and install onto computer. Create a new TypeScript Cordova project in VS2015. VS2015 may ask if … Read more
Renaming or deleting the VS profile folder in the AppData profile directory fixed the issue for me. You might prefer renaming in case you have a lot of extensions installed if this solution does not resolve the issue and would like to revert by renaming the folder back. [drive]:\Users\<your user>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0
This look like a VS Tools for Apache Cordova (TACO) issue. As a workaround you can open platforms\windows\CordovaApp.sln, switch architecture to x64, add Nuget package to the CordovaApp.Windows project references, save (build will fail because of an issue in the PreBuild event: <PreBuildEvent> cd /d $(MSBuildThisFileDirectory) node -e “require(‘C:\\Users\\{username}\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm\\node_modules\\vs-tac\\lib\\hooks.js’).updateAppxManifest(‘C:\\ocrTest\\ocrTest\\platforms\\windows’,’C:\\ocrTest\\ocrTest\\platforms\\windows\\..\\..\\’)” </PreBuildEvent> you can also try to … Read more