When I joined the ASP.NET team as the Program Manager for Ajax, the ASP.NET team was working on releasing a new version of the Microsoft Ajax Library. This new version of the Microsoft Ajax Library had several really innovative and unique features such as support for client templates, client data-binding, script dependency management, and globalization. However, we kept hearing the message that our customers wanted to use jQuery when building ASP.NET applications. Therefore, about ten months ago, we decided to pursue a risky strategy . Scott Guthrie sent me to Cambridge to meet with John Resig - the creator of jQuery and leader of the jQuery project - to find out whether Microsoft and jQuery could work together. We wanted to find out whether...(read more) ...
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