First, if you have not heard, Microsoft will be shipping jQuery as part of visual studio. And if the swiftness that the .NET team moves I am sure we can see it in a the next SP. Update: Just re-read the article…The jQuery intellisense annotation support will be available as a free web-download in a few weeks…w00t.
jQuery
jQuery is great, its selector engine is by far the simplest and (I think) most powerful component. But, when using jQuery I always seem to be looking for pluggins…widgets…etc.
Microsoft’s Challenge
Even though my current shop uses dojo, which I love too!, I am truly excited by this move. But integrated jQuery is the potential to become another underutilized component in the .NET toolbox. intellisense is great but most DNDD can’t type a lick of JS. Microsoft is going to have to wrap some widgets around this powerful engine.
DNDD: Drag and Drop Developer. Yes it does have a negative condensation.
