title: Definitely typed library support for Typescript 1.8.5
body: <p>I have searched for clues on how to work with Definitely typed libraries that  work with typescript 1.8 but haven't found anything helpful. My environment is Visual Studio 2013 with Typescript 1.8. Looks like most of the definitely typed libraries (backbone, requirejs, underscore, jquery among others) have moved into typescript 2.0 and above. </p>
  
  <p>We have an existing app written in backbone with requirejs which we are trying to move to typescript. Not much help out there for that too.</p>
  
  <p>Are there any Definitely typed libraries out there for typescript 1.8?</p>
  
  <p>Should the typed libraries be included in the csproj file or should they be like nuget (not included but referenced)?</p>
  
  <p>Can Definitely typed libraries written for typescript > 1.8 be used to work with 1.8 somehow?</p>
  
  <p>Should I use nuget definitely typed libraries or should I use npm ones. If either then how cause nuget typed libraries definitely did not help and npm ones were (written for ts > 1.8) were throwing lots of errors?</p>
  
  <p>Lastly, A big THANK YOU! to microsoft to ween the latest typescript versions off of visual studio 2013 for no good reason! </p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>