It was always comfortable to use features that are provided and supported by Microsoft (when it comes to Visual Studio and the like) so that we won’t be in trouble in the future, at least for me.
For this reason, I always think twice (or more) before touching anything that is open source, to be used with production code. The ASP.NET AJAX framework was so easy to use because of the pre-built controls provided by the Ajax Control Toolkit team. I had very few occasions where I needed to write some JavaScript code in the applications.
But when there were some advance pieces of code which demanded some JavaScript, I realized how much of JavaScript can be reused… and how handy it would be to use a JavaScript library for that purpose.
When I stumbled on this great JavaScript library called jQuery, I was skeptical because of its size… just played around some sites to explore animations and other functionalities that this library offers. But I never used it… sticking to what Microsoft offers through the ASP.NET Ajax framework.
And now I’m really excited to know that Microsoft and Nokia are adopting jQuery as part of their official application development platform. This shows the real power of jQuery. And what I am really excited about is the javascript intellisense support for jQuery that Microsoft will provide through Visual Studio!
Here are the posts of this great news from my favourite industry experts on the subject:
You can read the jQuery team’s announcement here. It must be a great turning point to the jQuery team.
Happy coding…