jQuery and Microsoft
I have writen previously saything that I intend to look at jQuery as an alternative to the Asp.net ajax framework, now I cant because Microsoft have just announced that jQuery is about to be release as part of Visual studio!
jQuery is an open source javascript library which makes it simple to transverse and manipulate the dom tree, and provides event handling and animiations, as well as a large community for support and plugins. I will provide a few examples in an upcoming blog. Developers have been asking Microsoft for jQuery like dom processing, and instead of Microsoft writing their own, they decided to use jQuery as is.
This is great news, and the first time (as far as I know) that Microsoft have done this and embraced open source technology as part of its product platform. I personally think this is a great move, one of the things I like about java is the fact the community make use of all the open source software out there, not try to compete with them, now is Microsoft adopting the same pattern?
Microsft intend to provide Visual Studio intellisense, provide support, and in the future will provide Asp.net toolbox controls which use JQuery and server side helper methods for asp.net MVC.
Check out: jQuery blog, Scott Hanselman’s Blog.
