Charlottesville .Net User Group

It has been said of jQuery that it is a library that makes JavaScript suck less. While that's not the most delicate way of putting it, anyone who's struggled with getting things done on a browser with pure JavaScript will probably sympathize. jQuery is an enormously popular library that indeed makes it easier to find, select, and manipulate client-side elements in your web-based applications, as well as providing support for common AJAX operations, animation, and a rich plug-in ecosystem.

jQuery works with most any application using HTML markup for its UI, and can be integrated with both ASP.NET Web Forms and ASP.NET MVC applications, for which jQuery support is provided out of the box with new MVC projects. And with jQueryUI, you can take advantage of common widgets to support tabbed and accordion UIs, and perform tasks such as drag and drop.

In this session, we'll walk through the basics of jQuery, show how jQuery and ASP.NET can work together, and show off how you can combine ASP.NET databinding and jQuery UI to create rich interfaces with a minimum of fuss.

G. Andrew Duthie, aka .net DEvHammer, is the Developer Evangelist for Microsoft’s Mid-Atlantic States district, where he provides support and education for developers working with the .net development platform. In addition to his work with Microsoft, Andrew is the author of several books on ASP.NET and web development, and has spoken at numerous industry conferences from VSLive! and ASP.NET Connections, to Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference (PDC) and Tech-Ed.