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Visual Studio Gets jQuery IntelliSense Auto-Completion
By Darryl K. Taft

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Two months after stating its intent to support the open-source jQuery JavaScript library, Microsoft announces support for jQuery IntelliSense in Visual Studio and Visual Web Developer Express for application development. IntelliSense is Microsoft's implementation of auto-completion.

Microsoft has added jQuery IntelliSense support within Visual Studio 2008 and its free Visual Web Developer 2008 Express tool.

In a blog post Nov. 21, Scott Guthrie, a corporate vice president in the Microsoft Developer Division, said, "Over the last few weeks we've been working with the jQuery team to add great jQuery IntelliSense support" to the two Microsoft tools.

In September, Guthrie announced Microsoft's intent to support the open-source jQuery JavaScript library. "jQuery is a lightweight open-source JavaScript library (only 15KB in size) that in a relatively short span of time has become one of the most popular libraries on the Web," Guthrie wrote in a Sept. 28 post.

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Guthrie said in the same post:

I'm excited today to announce that Microsoft will be shipping jQuery with Visual Studio going forward.  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

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