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

checkout my sample MVC5 + Angular2 (Beta1 & TypeScript) VS2015 solution: https://github.com/hobe/angular2mvc5

Basic steps:

1. TypeScriptModuleKind must be set to CommonJS
2. TypeScriptEmitDecoratorMetadata and TypeScriptExperimentalDecorators must be set in your .csproj file

Also requires "TypeScript 1.7.6.0 for Visual Studio 2015 Update 1"