Recently I delivered a session at Virtual TechDays on why NuGet is so useful. As a part of the demonstration, I was showcasing how it automatically allows us to update some of the external reference libraries. Point in case, here is jQuery. Starting Visual Studio 2008 SP1, we have been shipping jQuery and intellisense for jQuery thereof. With Visual Studio 2010, out of the box, when we create a "File - New Project - ASP.NET Web Application" (which would create a Webforms application) it would automatically add the jQuery script files for jQuery 1.4.1 version. This was the then latest version of jQuery when we shipped Visual Studio 2010 way back in early 2010. With the new ASP.NET MVC 3 Tools Update that was shipped in April, this year, when...(read more) ...
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