I am not so sure that jQuery is included as part of SharePoint 2010. Yes, it is integrated into Visual Studio 2010 in so far as intellisense and jQuery is provided in a local folder post install. However, in all the demos I saw at SPC09, jQuery had been downloaded to a SharePoint library or folder and referenced via traditional means (i.e. script tag hack or document.write method, or as HTML ).

After a Microsoft Presentation on SharePoint Mashups with Bing Maps, I asked the question on what is the recommended method to include jQuery on SharePoint pages and the answer was there is no best method. I caught up with Mike Amerlan later at the conference and he did say that deploying jQuery and script solutions via WSP is the best way to go.

I still think the best way to go for now is to use Jan Tielen’s SmartTools.jQuery (server side install which adds jQuery to all pages in a site collection) or his new jQueryLoader (client side install which modifies the master page to include jQuery on all site pages).

The community still needs a better solution. We need a way to:

- Push the script to pages that we want.
- Allow Script on Demand or lazy loading (it’s a waste of resources to load jQuery and other libraries on a page that don’t need it).

I am going to have the jPoint community look into implementing this, possibly by using an Aspect Oriented Programming design.

I actually had a discussion with Jeremy Thake (@jthake) last night on that. Yes, jQuery is included as part of 2010, however “No one’s talking!”. I can’t find documentation or discussion on it. Probably have to wait for the beta rollout in November.

Mark

But we, as a community, have a lot of work to do. The jPoint project has the vision to make everyone’s lives easier by making it easier to develop, deploy, and upgrade javascript solutions on Sharepoint. We are looking for devs to help overload our functions to allow jPoint to leverage the optimized functions in the SharePoint Javascript Client Object Model (ie. bulk load queries). Please check out the jPoint project on Codeplex – http://jPoint.codeplex.com.

@Willhlaw