February 2010
Beginner
400 pages
11h 13m
English
Content preview from Introducing .NET 4.0: with Visual Studio 2010
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Chapter 12. jQuery
Availability: Any IntelliSense Support from Visual Studio 2008 Onward
"jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript."
http://jquery.com/
In a surprising but excellent move, in late 2008 Microsoft announced that it would be integrating jQuery into Visual Studio. jQuery is used by some very big names such as Amazon, Google, Dell, IBM, and Slashdot (for a full list, please refer to http://docs.jquery.com/Sites_Using_jQuery).
JavaScript is a very powerful language and can produce some amazing results in the right hands. But let's be honest; writing ...