Web essentials not showing typescript preview

4
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I must be missing something really basic. I'm playing with Typescript. Based on this link: http://vswebessentials.com/features/typescript I thought that Web Essentials should be giving me a split-pane window so that I could observe the javascript that is being generated for me.

I have my typescript file, but no joy from Web Essentials. Should the preview pane show up automatically, or is there something I need to do? (I explored all of the Web Essentials menus, and the link above doesn't say anything about activating the feature.

Setup:

  • Visual Studio 2015 w/ Update 1

  • TypeScript for Visual Studio installed (version 1.7.6.0 (latest as of today))

  • Web Essentials 2015.1

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1 Answers

5
votes

The TypeScript preview pane has been removed from Web Essentials 2015 due to continuously running into conflicts with the TS compiler when new versions come out.

This is a known issue and hopefully the typescript team will add the feature into the TS tooling in the future.