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I'm guessing the complexity comes from adding Visual Studio 2008 into the mixer :) Have you tried playing around with just plain HTML / JS files?

Yeah - really this isn't about jQuery, this is about M$ and their less than configurable VS. I have used VS for years for all sorts of applications and it happens to be the worst IDE ever. In the history of history. Intellisense (an oxymoron if there ever was one) proves to be the most difficult beast when including libraries from any language.

I'm sorry that you're having difficulties.

I assume your using web forms? That is part of the problem. While it is great for letting you drag and drop things onto a page and make something that works with little to know programming, VS also takes control of naming and organizing things so that the names and IDs have no basis in reality when you actually need to try to do something with them.

If it's possible you may want to try using MVC, as it gives you more control over how things are rendered to the client.

Dave

Thanks for your responses! [There is life on planet jQuery Forum :-) ].

I guess I can live without jQ intellisense, even though other VS users boast of getting it working.

What I find totally frustrating is that I cannot for the life of me get VB to control jQuery code from code behind
I have seen (and received many replies to forum questions) about using vb code like:

1. Page.ClientScript.RegisterStartupScript(Me.GetType(), "openDialog", "$(function(){$('#message1').dialog();$('#message1').dialog('open');});", True)

But this simply does not work and produces nothing. If only i could get past this hurdle, I cold continue my web development.

Have you talked to anyone on a Microsoft or VS forum?