It looks like many of you have already noticed that there's an official Visual Studio autocomplete file for jQuery posted up at the jQuery site. It's significant that it's hosted by the jQuery team in that it's a contribution by the Visual Studio team but it's not up at CodePlex, because it really belongs to jQuery so there's where you'll find it.

This isn't a new jQuery file and nothing's been "forked" so don't freak out. It's just a documentation file, as you can see if you go to the Download jQuery page.

• 1.2.6 (Release Notes)
• Minified, Packed, Uncompressed
• Documentation: Visual Studio

Now, the Visual Studio-specific aspect of this is a temporary thing, as it's planned for Visual Studio to support a more standard syntax at some future date, but until then, there's this file and we'll make sure it's kept updated.

Jeff King has details on how to use this file in your projects. In the VERY near future there will be a hotfix that will cause Visual Studio to look for files that end in "-vsdoc.js" for intellisense which will make including it in your project automatic.

There's a few things that are nice about this jQuery file is that it supports and understands jQuery plug-ins. If you're into jQuery and ASP.NET, go check it out.

Related Links

• Stephen Walther's ASP.NET and jQuery presentation at PDC
• Code and Demos for Stephen's jQuery talk
• jQuery IntelliSense documentation file available
• Rich IntelliSense for jQuery
• jQuery to ship with ASP.NET MVC and Visual Studio