Don't get it wrong: whenever you want to use a newer version of Visual Studio, update your Typescript compiler or upgrade any third-party library; you are free and also very encouraged to do that. This is nothing less than the main scope of this book--making the readers fully aware of what they're doing and capable of going on their path, way beyond the given code samples.
However, if you feel you're ready to do that, you will also have to adapt the code accordingly; most of the time, we're talking about trivial stuff, especially these days when you can Google out the issue and/or get the solution on StackOverflow. They changed the typings? Then you need to load the new typings; they moved ...
