Microsoft + jQuery
Totally rockin announcement today: Microsoft will be shipping jQuery with Visual Studio.
If you follow the Dovetail Developers, you already know that we’re big fans of jQuery at Dovetail.
ScottGu has details on his blog about this announcement, as does John Resig. Scott Hanselman also has a good write-up.
From ScottGu’s post:
We will distribute the jQuery JavaScript library as-is, and will not be forking or changing the source from the main jQuery branch. The files will continue to use and ship under the existing jQuery MIT license.
We will also distribute intellisense-annotated versions that provide great Visual Studio intellisense and help-integration at design-time.
The jQuery intellisense annotation support will be available as a free web-download in a few weeks.
We will also extend Microsoft product support to jQuery beginning later this year, which will enable developers and enterprises to call and open jQuery support cases 24×7 with Microsoft PSS.
Not only is this awesome for us developers, but its also cool to see Microsoft embracing a library that they didn’t invent.
Rockin!
