jQuery now officially part of the .NET developer’s toolbox

re: jQuery now officially part of the .NET developer’s toolbox

Bertrand Le Roy — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:47:15 GMT

@ra170: Sorry to hear that. Not sure what's going on here. Feel free to send me a zip file with your site at bleroy at microsoft and I'll have a look.

re: jQuery now officially part of the .NET developer’s toolbox

_ra170 — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:28:17 GMT

I converted the example to .net 3.5. When I run your example in Firefox, nothing happens, when I run it in IE I get: Microsoft JScript runtime error: Object expected

re: jQuery now officially part of the .NET developer’s toolbox

Bertrand Le Roy — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:45:48 GMT

@Joe: how this is the "easy way out" eludes me completely :)

But I'd be interested in discussing with you the business needs of your customers and whether we could either find other technical ways of achieving your requirements or explain how what really counts here is Microsoft support. You can contact me at bleroy at Microsoft.

re: jQuery now officially part of the .NET developer’s toolbox

Joe Pretontius — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:41:52 GMT

No, sorry. I'm not missing the point, but I do think it funny that you believe anyone need 'compete' against open source. My customers want nothing to do with open source. Period. Microsoft has more developers than the population of many mid-Western towns. That they couldn't blow the doors off of jQuery instead of taking the easy way out, rolling over and playing dead? Please...

re: jQuery now officially part of the .NET developer’s toolbox

jgd12345 — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:30:35 GMT

Joe i think you're missing the point. The whole asp.net ajax framework will still be in place but they will utilize jquery instead of compete against it. I see asp.net ajax as the framework where as jquery is more about dom manipulation and making it easier for us to create our extenders.

re: jQuery now officially part of the .NET developer’s toolbox

Bertrand Le Roy — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 04:53:00 GMT

@Joe: we're not abandoning anything.

re: jQuery now officially part of the .NET developer’s toolbox

Asheesh Soni — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 02:14:55 GMT

Best server side framework (asp.net) now ships with the best client side library (jQuery) to create the ultimate platform for web development.

Thanks Guys!

You Rock!

re: jQuery now officially part of the .NET developer’s toolbox

Joe Pretontius — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:46:33 GMT

It's a sad, sad day when Microsoft decides to abandon its superior development efforts in favor of shipping trash from the open source community with Visual Studio.

Not one to have bashed Microsoft in the past simply for the sake of doing so and also one experienced enough to not be easily impressed with open source trinkets, I must differ with the majority of the other submitted comments - Microsoft's AJAX functionality was far more impressive than that of lukewarm efforts like jQuery and a much more sound foundation upon which to build upon.

I look forward to the day Microsoft decides to stop minimizing its distractions and once again begins kicking ass, rather than wasting time with the meanderings of hobbyists...

re: jQuery now officially part of the .NET developer’s toolbox

Bertrand Le Roy — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:07:43 GMT

@Adam: I'll be at PDC. Will you?

re: jQuery now officially part of the .NET developer’s toolbox

Adam.Kahtava — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 21:34:24 GMT

Thank-you!!! This calls for a celebration, where can I send the beer?