Integrating jQuery into an existing ASP.NET Web Application?

Question

Microsoft recently announced that the Javascript/HTML DOM library jQuery will be integrated into the ASP.NET MVC framework and into ASP.NET / Visual Studio.

What is the best practice or strategy adopting jQuery using ASP.NET 2.0? I'd like to prepare a large, existing ASP.NET Web Application (not MVC) for jQuery. How would I deal with versioning and related issues?

Are the any caveats integrating jQuery and ASP.NET Ajax? Or 3rd party components like Telerik or Intersoft controls?

Answer 1

There's a small issue which is mentioned by David Ward here: http://encosia.com/2008/09/28/avoid-this-tricky-conflict-between-aspnet-ajax-and-jquery/

But there should not be any major concerns about integrating jQuery into an existing application, you wouldn't notice major advantages unless you're planning a lot of updating/ reworking of existing code to take advantages of jQuerys power.