According to the Typescript wiki, with the release of Typescript 1.8, there is a significant enhancement in Visual Studio 2015 for 'Improved support for tsconfig.json' (emphasis added by me):
With TypeScript 1.8, tsconfig.json files can now be utilized in all project types. This includes ASP.NET v4 projects, Console Application, and Html Application with TypeScript project types. Moreover, you are no longer restricted to just one tsconfig.json file, as multiple files can be added to build different parts of your project individually without needing separate projects.
In my ASP.NET project, compiler settings are defined in tsconfig.json. When compiling outside of VS2015, these configurations are applied. I have observed this firsthand - changing 'noImplicitAny' to true causes the build to fail due to its usage with 'any' elsewhere in the project. However, within Visual Studio, such changes seem to go unnoticed during build processes resulting in successful builds.
What could be causing Visual Studio 2015 to ignore tsconfig, and what steps can I take to ensure that the configuration is acknowledged?