I download the new 0.9 Typescript definition file from the forum and it fixed the 0.9 compatibility issues.  However, it also brought back and error I had manually fixed but forgot to put a post about with the older version.  The interface DropDownListOptions defined the template property as

 template?: string;

But this does not work with  kendo.template function which returns a function.  Changing it to the following worked. 

template?: any; 

However, I think the following is more correct and also works.

(data: any) => string

Just looking through the file there seems to be some other places where I think this is wrong too.

Hello Brad,

 Thank you for reporting this issue. We have made the template option to support a function as well. The fix will appear in our next internal build which is due by the end of this week.

Regards,
Atanas Korchev
Telerik