Finally the news that some of us in the ASP.NET MVC World have been secretly hoping for, has come true. Microsoft will ship JQuery as a part of ASP.NET inside Visual Studio - IntelliSense and all! Not just that - it is to be the basis of any of their new Ajax UI widgets and elements they design in ASP.NET.
But why trust me, check from the source himself - Scott Guthrie:
http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2008/09/28/jquery-and-microsoft.aspx
For some of you that might have dropped out if this planet for the past year or two, JQuery is a very powerful, yet simple JavaScript/Ajax framework that allows for a effective manipulation of Html elements without much of the script. For details please check out:
http://www.jquery.com