Integrating SharePoint 2007 and jQuery [Part One] 
(Jan Tielens) When I was at PDC08, I attended a session about the jQuery JavaScript library (watch online). A few weeks before that Scott Guthrie announced that Microsoft would support, and even ship jQuery together with Visual Studio, along with Microsofts own AJAX implementation: ASP.NET AJAX. If youve never heard about jQuery, I defenitly recommend you to to check it out, there are some great tutorials available. The defenition of jQuery reads: "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." In my opinion jQuery is great because it simplifies a lot the JavaScript that you have to write if youd like to do fancy AJAX stuff, selecting HTML elements for example is a breeze. Secondly jQuery has a big community that develops plugins for various scenarios. I already wrote and talked quite a bit about integrating ASP.NET AJAX with SharePoint 2007, so lets check out how you can integrate jQuery as well!
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