Cannot find external module 'angular2/angular2' - Angular2 w/ Typescript

Question

I am going through the step by step tutorial on angular.io (Angular 2). I am using typescript. I get the following error when trying to compile:

Cannot find ex

Answer 1

For those who are facing this issue in "Visual Studio TypeScript projects" then you might need to do the following thing to resolve it.

Open your .csproject in text editor and

1. change the as CommonJS
2. Insert additional settings(TypeScriptEmitDecoratorMetadata, TypeScriptExperimentalDecorators) at the end

Here is my .csproject reference.

            false
            true
            ES5
            None
            True
            False
            CommonJS
            
            
            False
            True
            
            True
    True