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Microsoft Adding jQuery To Visual Studio

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the well-isn't-that-special dept.

Tim Anderson writes "Microsoft's Scott Guthrie, Corporate VP of the .NET developer division, announced that the open source jQuery Javascript library will be integrated into Visual Studio, the main Windows development tool. Further, Microsoft will treat jQuery as a supported product within technical support contracts, and will use jQuery to build new controls for ASP.NET, its web platform."

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  1. jQuery rocks, no comment on Microsoft by operator_error · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Folks, lemme tell you whatever you remember from learning javascript is largely irrelevant, especially memorizing and learning to 'read' all those ugly syntactical structures of text. In a word, jQuery is 'efficient'. Also, you know all those ajax modal & pop-up windows you see on 'web 2.0' sites, with the soft rounded corners. That's probably jQuery, more likely than not, and it is *easy* to code for, across browser. If you've avoided learning Ajax, you were smart to wait for jQuery.

  2. Re:Microsoft incorporating Open Source? by dedazo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Because the jQuery maintainers are going to happily incorporate Windows-only modifications made by Microsoft to the library, correct?

    Because "we'll be shipping jQuery as-is, and submit patches to it like everyone else" means something weird and wacky you must have deduced ahead of us. Correct?

    Actually I'm at a loss here. Could you enlighten us as to how these evil tricksies will take place.

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  3. Re:Yet another Microsoft ripoff by Maudib · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I really doubt that this is a case where extend and extinguish is really viable or intended. Its not like jquery is some fundamental piece of open source that it's destruction would advance ms in any way, as you note there are tons of other similar active great projects.

    If they wanted to extinguish it then I doubt they would make it such a core piece of Visual Studio. It sounds to me like they finally realized how retarded visual studio was compared to what was freely available and decided to just integrate with a good existing project. If anything I think that in this specific area they plan on working with the community in a positive way.

    so at worse I think we will see some unpleasant branching or the addition of some lame IE specific code. Its a rare case where one can say kudos MS! They integrated with a good project for the right reasons.

  4. Re:Yet another Microsoft ripoff by naoursla · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I am one of the developers working on javascript support in VS. I am working very closely with jquery support. Our goal is to get as many developers as possible using our tools. That means supporting libraries that web developers want to use.

  5. eclipse/netbeans by jefu · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Is there any similar effort toward building eclipse/netbeans/??? IDE's for jquery?