Resources for “Visual Studio 2010 for JavaScript Developers talk”

Last Thursday night, I had a great time presenting to the Atlanta JavaScript meetup. We had to improvise a bit for group viewing, because no one knew where Ignition Alley’s projector was. I spotted their DLP TV and noticed that it had a VGA input, so all 12 of us gathered around it for the demos. (see below)

We had some great conversations about Visual Studio 2010’s support for JavaScript like snippets, IntelliSense and debugging. The second half of the meeting was centered around OData and learning how to consume it from JavaScript. Thanks to everyone for the very engaging discussions and warm welcome. I hope to see this meetup really flourish in the future!

Here are some links based on what we talked about in the meeting.

• Get Visual Web Developer 2010 Express. It’s a free version of Visual Studio that supports all the JavaScript goodness I showed.
• The ASP.NET AJAX page with information on Microsoft’s jQuery support, our AJAX Control Toolkit and our Content Delivery Network (CDN)
• 131 Visual Studio 2010 snippets for working with jQuery
• John Resig’s JavaScript Microtemplating
• Read about the jQuery Globalization Plugin, one of Microsoft’s open-source contributions back to the jQuery community
• Another post on jQuery templates and data linking
• Dave Ward’s blog. Dave is a real JavaScript guru, based right here in Atlanta.
• How to use Netflix’s OData feed
• An example of how to call Netflix’s OData feed from JavaScript

Comments

• Anonymous
  August 02, 2010
  One thing I would love to see, and think it would be a big help for JavaScript developers, is some kind of JSLint integration into the "Error List"/Warnings window. One reason I still use Aptana is for this simple integration.  It's nice to have small warnings when you aren't using some best practices and other small things that seem to slide by like " === ".

• Anonymous
  August 08, 2010
  Hey Now Glenn, Nice Post! .js Thx 4 the info, Catto