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ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit to Ship with Open Source jQuery

ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit to Ship with Open Source jQuery
By Maureen O'Gara
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October 6, 2008 03:00 AM EDT
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Microsoft is going to ship jQuery, the popular open source JavaScript library, as a standard, supported part of its all-important Visual Studio toolkit and ASP.NET, a little 15kb stick of dynamite.

Microsoft says it won’t change the source from the main jQuery branch. It will ship it “as is” under the existing jQuery MIT license.

The widgetry is good at the way it lets developers find and manipulate HTML elements with minimum lines of code. jQuery commands can also be daisy-chained together so the result of one command feeds into another. And it includes a built-in set of animation APIs that can be used as commands.

It also has a vibrant ecosystem.

Microsoft said, “Going forward we’ll use jQuery as one of the libraries used to implement higher-level controls in the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit, as well as to implement new AJAX server-side helper methods for ASP.NET MVC. New features we add to ASP.NET AJAX (like the new client template support) will be designed to integrate nicely with jQuery as well.”

And Microsoft plans to contribute tests, bug fixes, and patches back to the jQuery open source project.

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