Tips for Using JQuery with ASP.NET Ajax

Dave Ward has put together an excellent and extensive post on his experiences integrating jQuery with ASP.NET

There are the usual number of pitfalls you’d expect when integrating [insert widely-used microsoft technology here] with [insert useful open source technology here]

Want to consume a JSON Web Service with jQuery? Sounds simple. That’s kinda the point of JSON right? Well yeah, but no. Everything’s workaroundable and to be fair it isn’t all Microsoft’s fault… ok so most of it is.

I’m gonna be starting a large scale ASP.NET / jQuery / ExtJS project in the very near future and Dave’s short guide has probably just saved me several hours if not a whole day of figuring out all the lumps and bumps myself.