On Tuesday, I had the privilege of presenting a session on jQuery at the www.NotAtPDC.com extension to the Microsoft PDC conference. I had a blast presenting my new-found love of jQuery to an audience of 47 folks, and given the level of interest I am publishing the project source.

There were a number of great questions that came up; here are the responses for a couple of them:

• The jQuery scripts are included by default in the ASP.NET MVC Beta. When you create a new project based on the Beta, they are in the scripts directory and are automatically referenced in the Master page.
• jQuery itself can be used in any web application, and is not dependant on ASP.NET MVC.

Resources listed in the presentation:

• jQuery - http://jquery.com
• jQueryUI - http://ui.jquery.com
• Help Guide - http://visualjquery.com
• Books
  • Learning jQuery by Karl Swedberg and Jonathan Chaffer (Packt Publishing - June 2007)
  • jQuery in Action by Bear Bibeault, Yehuda Katz and John Resig (Manning Publications - February 2008)

Thanks also to John Resig, who is the lead developer on the jQuery project, who attended my presentation and was able to handle some of the more intricate questions regarding jQuery.

NOTE: There is no security validation in the sample code, such as ensuring only authorized users can delete speakers. Do not use this code in production.

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