Contents

jQuery for ASP.NET Developers

Overview

Getting Started

jQuery Basics

Jumping into the API

Using jQuery in ASP.NET

Summary

About Joe Brinkman

jQuery for ASP.NET Developers

Overview

JavaScript has seen a large resurgence in usage over the past 8 years. Developers are looking to provide their customers with a richer user experience. With the introduction of Outlook Web Access in 2000, Google Mail in 2004, and Google Maps in 2005, web developers had great examples of building highly interactive and responsive web applications using JavaScript and Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX). Those applications sparked a renewed interest in adding greater interactivity to web sites, a practice which had died out during the browser wars of the 1990s.

Unfortunately, many developers found that building this level of interactivity took a lot of effort. JavaScript behavior was not consistent across browsers, which required a lot of hacks and extensive testing. Over the past 4 years, various JavaScript frameworks were developed that simplified development by normalizing behavior across the major browsers and by providing advanced functionality using a simplified Application Programming Interface (API).

Since its launch in 2006, jQuery has quickly become a favorite JavaScript framework with the web development community. jQuery has a simple, yet powerful syntax and API, which makes it very easy for new users to quickly build sophisticated effects and functionality. In addition, jQuery provided a plug-in model that allowed developers to package and distribute their own enhancements. Both of these key features contributed to jQuery’s rapid adoption.

With the recent announcement by Microsoft that jQuery would be distributed with Visual Studio and with its continued adoption by many web development frameworks like DekiWiki, DotNetNuke, Umbraco, Drupal, WordPress, and others, jQuery is quickly becoming an essential tool in many web developers’ toolboxes.

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