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How to exclude some files from TypeScript build

If you are using TypeScript nightly (and only with TypeScript 1.6 up) you can use in your tsconfig.json new property exclude which will mostly be used for node_modules like this (more on this here : http://blogs.msdn.com/b/typescript/archive/2015/07/27/introducing-typescript-nightlies.aspx) : [javascript] { "compilerOptions": { "out": "../../built/local/tsc.js", "sourceMap": true…

How to disable building of TypeScript files in Visual Studio 2015

If you would like to disable building TypeScript files in your solution for some reason (you want different build workflow, you just work on .cs files and don’t touch .ts files), you had to search for some kind of ifs or comments out to the…

In TypeScript when checking for types at runtime, don’t use type HTMLTableDataCellElement but HTMLTableCellElement

tl;dr Type HTMLTableDataCellElement is not defined in Chrome and FireFox, this object is IE only. If you want to test at runtime for TD element in all latest browsers, use HTMLTableCellElement instead. The whole story : Today I ran into one subtle thing when checking…

How to make CKEditor load just like a frame but show upper command buttons when maximized to fullscreen

Here is my small take on what is needed in lots of apps that have limited real estate on the screen. To load some (in my case CKEditor) editor with hidden chrome, buttons that are either shared for several editors, or each editor has its…

How to get type of object in TypeScript, when using union types and type guards for multiple types of function parameter or variable

tl;dr When checking for primitive types in TypeScript , typeof variable === “string” or typeof variable === “number” should do the job. When checking for HTMLElement or HTMLDivElement type of objects, variable instanceof HTMLElement or variable instanceof HTMLDivElement type of check should be the right…

Microsoft.Web.Infrastructure was not found while building on CI server

tl;dr story: Just add HintPath node to Microsoft.Web.Infrastructure Reference node that points to where NuGet package is. The full story: I just would like to share with you problem I ran into. Basically we have a ASP.NET project that I updated with some NuGet packages….

How to force types in Array with TypeScript’s union types

From TypeScript 1.4 we can do nice stuff with types now, with help of feature called Union Types : https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/wiki/What%27s-new-in-TypeScript#union-types which will let you do also this sweet stuff : You can see this in action on this link : http://www.typescriptlang.org/Playground Sample snippet here :…

Adding .JS file generated by TypeScript in Visual Studio 2013 to markup

Note to self : If you want to add .js file generated by TypeScript from .ts file under Visual Studio 2013, you don’t need to click Show All Files, than search for file you wanted to add and then disable Show All Files (because by…

How to create simple DTO “object” in PowerShell

Why this sample : I needed simple and short solution for creating custom DTO objects with simple logic for later reuse elsewhere. Function essentialy takes “constructor” argument and returns object with properties that have getters with small piece of logic and are using constructor parameter….