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Sunday, September 28, 2008 -

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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Ben - Saturday, October 04, 2008 - That is amazing!! I can't believe this is true. Microsoft really is changing!!
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Agus Suhanto - Sunday, September 28, 2008 - Rob, I'm sure this shift of thinking is good. BTW, will you demo it in your Storefront? I saw your demo using Microsoft Ajax library, and you also mentioned a lot about JQuery. It will be good thing if you can create the same demo using JQuery.
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Yitzchok - Sunday, September 28, 2008 - Am I dreaming or something :)
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OmegaSupreme - Sunday, September 28, 2008 - Brilliant idea, and win-win for everyone.
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eduardocampano - Sunday, September 28, 2008 - I started using jQuery with ASP.NET MVC a month ago, so that's great news. I saw you're that way too in your stackoverflow question :). Hope to see some in MvcStorefront.
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k_man - Sunday, September 28, 2008 - OMG! Too Cool!



This is something I was wishing for but never thought this could or would happen. Bravo to Scott Gu for making this happen.



It is exciting to see MS do this and is a really positive thing.
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Zharfan Mazli - Sunday, September 28, 2008 - Yes, great to hear that. Some people already used ASP.MVC and jQuery here.

Good for jQuery and ASP.NET MVC :)
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josh - Sunday, September 28, 2008 - This is a surprise and big deal to me. I am not sold on Silverlight, and definitely not sold on Flash. However, RIA is going to become more popular. I think JQuery + AJAX is an excellent way to provide RIA and keep it seo friendly. Also, I think its easier to maintain.



I might play around with MS MVC again just because of this even though I've been very happy with Castle Monorail.
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firefly - Sunday, September 28, 2008 - This is huge! :)
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Dietrich - Monday, September 29, 2008 - Great news. Thanks MS. Curious what this means for jQuery UI, which is sponsored by Liferay? Will it continue to be primary de facto widget library?
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Agus Suhanto - Sunday, September 28, 2008 - Rob, I'm sure this shift of thinking is good. BTW, will you demo it in your Storefront? I saw your demo using Microsoft Ajax library, and you also mentioned a lot about JQuery. It will be good thing if you can create the same demo using JQuery.
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Yitzchok - Sunday, September 28, 2008 - Am I dreaming or something :)
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OmegaSupreme - Sunday, September 28, 2008 - Brilliant idea, and win-win for everyone.
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Eduardo Campañó - Sunday, September 28, 2008 - I started using jQuery with ASP.NET MVC a month ago, so that's great news. I saw you're that way too in your stackoverflow question :). Hope to see some in MvcStorefront.
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k_man - Sunday, September 28, 2008 - OMG! Too Cool!

This is something I was wishing for but never thought this could or would happen. Bravo to Scott Gu for making this happen.

It is exciting to see MS do this and is a really positive thing.
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Zharfan Mazli - Sunday, September 28, 2008 - Yes, great to hear that. Some people already used ASP.MVC and jQuery here.
Good for jQuery and ASP.NET MVC :)
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josh - Monday, September 29, 2008 - This is a surprise and big deal to me. I am not sold on Silverlight, and definitely not sold on Flash. However, RIA is going to become more popular. I think JQuery + AJAX is an excellent way to provide RIA and keep it seo friendly. Also, I think its easier to maintain.

I might play around with MS MVC again just because of this even though I've been very happy with Castle Monorail.
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firefly - Monday, September 29, 2008 - This is huge! :)
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Dietrich - Monday, September 29, 2008 - Great news. Thanks MS. Curious what this means for jQuery UI, which is sponsored by Liferay? Will it continue to be primary de facto widget library?
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Ben - Sunday, October 05, 2008 - That is amazing!! I can't believe this is true. Microsoft really is changing!!