title: tsc is not recognized as internal or external command
body: <p>I updated from VSCode 0.10.6 to 0.10.8, and tried using Typescript for the first time.  Unfortunately I when I tell VSCode to build, I get the error:</p>
  <blockquote>
  <p>tsc is not a recognized as an internal or external command...</p>
  </blockquote>
  <p>Here are the relevant details:</p>
  <ul>
  <li>I created a fresh &quot;HelloWorld&quot; project <a href="https://code.visualstudio.com/Docs/languages/typescript" rel="noreferrer">according to VS Code instructions</a>.  This included:
  <ul>
  <li>I ran <code>npm init</code> for a new package.json</li>
  <li>I ran <code>npm i --save-dev typescript</code> because I want a local install, rather than a global install.</li>
  <li>I created a launch.json to define a node.js project.</li>
  <li>I created the tasks.json file, with prescribed settings for tsc.</li>
  </ul>
  </li>
  <li>I have made a settings.json file, <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34430205/after-recent-update-vs-code-transpiling-stopped-working-tsc-is-not-recognized-a">as shown here</a>.  It did not help.</li>
  <li>I do have Visual Studio 2015 Community installed, but I have not installed a Typescript extension of any kind.  When I type &quot;where tsc&quot; at a developer command prompt, it replies &quot;could not find&quot;. I assume this is a good thing.</li>
  </ul>
  <p>I have restarted VSCode (several times).  What am I missing?  What more must be done?</p>
  <h2>Update</h2>
  <p>I tried the solution offered by @zlumer.  It succeeded in making the typescript compiler run, but then it caused thousands of errors to appear.  To fix that, I also had to adjust my tsconfig.json to exclude the node_modules folder:</p>
  <pre><code>&quot;exclude&quot;: [
      &quot;node_modules&quot;
  ]
  </code></pre>