diff --git a/extensions/typescript/src/features/formattingProvider.ts b/extensions/typescript/src/features/formattingProvider.ts
index ed5a4a0e9ae..e65d8ea49c9 100644
--- a/extensions/typescript/src/features/formattingProvider.ts
+++ b/extensions/typescript/src/features/formattingProvider.ts
@@ -75,28 +75,30 @@ export class TypeScriptFormattingProvider implements DocumentRangeFormattingEdit
 		if (!filepath) {
 			return [];
 		}
+
+		await this.formattingOptionsManager.ensureFormatOptions(document, options, token);
+
 		const args: Proto.FormatOnKeyRequestArgs = {
 			file: filepath,
 			line: position.line + 1,
 			offset: position.character + 1,
 			key: ch
 		};
-
-		await this.formattingOptionsManager.ensureFormatOptions(document, options, token);
-		return this.client.execute('formatonkey', args, token).then((response): TextEdit[] => {
-			let edits = response.body;
-			let result: TextEdit[] = [];
+		try {
+			const response = await this.client.execute('formatonkey', args, token);
+			const edits = response.body;
+			const result: TextEdit[] = [];
 			if (!edits) {
 				return result;
 			}
 			for (const edit of edits) {
-				let textEdit = this.codeEdit2SingleEditOperation(edit);
-				let range = textEdit.range;
+				const textEdit = this.codeEdit2SingleEditOperation(edit);
+				const range = textEdit.range;
 				// Work around for https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/6700.
 				// Check if we have an edit at the beginning of the line which only removes white spaces and leaves
 				// an empty line. Drop those edits
 				if (range.start.character === 0 && range.start.line === range.end.line && textEdit.newText === '') {
-					let lText = document.lineAt(range.start.line).text;
+					const lText = document.lineAt(range.start.line).text;
 					// If the edit leaves something on the line keep the edit (note that the end character is exclusive).
 					// Keep it also if it removes something else than whitespace
 					if (lText.trim().length > 0 || lText.length > range.end.character) {
@@ -107,9 +109,10 @@ export class TypeScriptFormattingProvider implements DocumentRangeFormattingEdit
 				}
 			}
 			return result;
-		}, () => {
-			return [];
-		});
+		} catch {
+			// noop
+		}
+		return [];
 	}
 
 	private codeEdit2SingleEditOperation(edit: Proto.CodeEdit): TextEdit {