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jQuery and Visual Studio BFF

As I'm sure you know by now, jQuery is going to ship with Visual Studio in the future and will also be distributed as  part of the ASP.NET MVC installation.

This, friends, is progress.

You can read all of the details on ScottGu's blog (as well as a nice tutorial on Hanselman's) about what jQuery is (if you don't know) and also why you should care. Not only does this represent a significant leap in productivity for you (intellisense for jQuery! Hellloooo!), it also affirms, yet again, a shift in thinking at Microsoft.

Many people have doubted Microsoft's intentions in the past - some have claimed that they're gobbling up Open Source projects and burying them (like, ahem, SubSonic). Hopefully these opinions will start to change. And if you're wondering why/how all this is happening, especially right now, you have one person to thank for it.

I think this is such a cool thing that I'm going to show Scott a little love for it later today. When I'm done with that I might by Resig (the jQuery guy) something as well. He's one of my heroes :).

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Hi! My name is Rob Conery and I work at Microsoft. I am the Creator of SubSonic and was the Chief Architect of the Commerce Starter Kit (a free, Open Source eCommerce platform for .NET)

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