Visual studio 2013 - cordova file plugin issue

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Hi I'm working on Ionic framework for mobile app development in Visual studio 2013.
In config.xml I could not able to add cordova file plugin, it shows couldn't able to download plugin., so I manually installed the Plugin from Git repository. The version of the plugin added is 4.2.0 and I added the following lines of code for file creation


    window.resolveLocalFileSystemURL(cordova.file.dataDirectory, function (dir) {
                    console.log("got main dir", dir);
                    dir.getFile("log.txt", { create: true }, function (file) {
                        console.log("got the file", file);
                        logOb = file;
                        writeLog("App started");
                    });
                });

But when I try to build the solution, it throws me "couldn't install cordova file plugin" and the build fails. So I downgraded the plugin version to 1.3.1, build succeeds, but it throws "cordova.file" as undefined. 

What I have tried:

Please help me resolve this issue or if you could recommend me a different method to get around this issue, that would be great!

Thanks for the answers