Initializers are not allowed in ambient contexts error when installing Blueprint

Question

I\'m trying to use the @blueprintjs/core library in my project. However, when I compile my code, I\'m getting many errors like this:

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Answer 1

I had this problem, but for me, updating the local (and global) TypeScript packages did not resolve the problem. Luckily I came across the following article Which version of TypeScript is Visual Studio Using?

In a nutshell, whilst I had updated to TypeScript 2.2, Visual Studio was still referencing version 2.0 in the .csproj file. I hope this helps someone else with a similar problem.