To find that out, type this into your command window: Even if you have an acceptable version of Node.js, you must also have npm version 3.x.x or greater. If you get a 'not recognized' message then you’ll need to install Node.js. To verify that you’re running Node.js version 4.6.x, open a command window and type: Your first step, therefore, is making sure that you have Node.js version 4.6.x, or greater, installed on your computer (Node.js is installed with some versions of Visual Studio, but it can be a very old version). I used Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition and the current versions of ASP.NET MVC, Angular 2 and TypeScript for this project.Ĭonfiguring Your Computer and Visual StudioĪngular 2 works best when it retrieves its components using the Node.js package manager (npm). Not surprisingly, doing that and creating a simple 'Hello World' application is going to take all of this column (in later columns, I look at using TypeScript to actually create Angular applications).

Using Angular 2 in an ASP.NET MVC can involve configuring your computer, Visual Studio, your ASP.NET MVC project, Angular itself and TypeScript. It makes sense, therefore, to look at how to use TypeScript with one of the most popular JavaScript frameworks: AngularJS 2 (Angular 2). In previous columns I’ve looked at using TypeScript with popular JavaScript frameworks like Knockout and Backbone.

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