Developing with jQuery in Microsoft Visual Studio 2008

In this blog Jeff Cogswell explains how jQuery Support in Visual Studio works. The magic is to use the following code in your web page.

<script src="jQuery-1.2.6-vsdoc.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

This source file "jQuery-1.2.6-vsdoc.js" is actually identical to the standard jQuery JavaScript file "jQuery-1.2.6.js", except all the functions and objects in it have been annotated with special comments. These comments tell Visual Studio IntelliSense about the objects as it parses the file.