After the back and forth with Mike Oryszak about the last demo I built, my partner Pete and I decided that it would be really useful (and a fun exercise) to start building out a jQuery Library for the SharePoint Web Services. While many, many people have blogged about their point solutions for this (not faulting anyone at all), it seemed that a generalized jQuery library could have some legs.
We’ve done a scan in Codeplex and other places, and we don’t think that there is a single united jQuery library that tries to accomplish what we’re doing. If you know of one, then please let me know!
There’s a new demo page on our Sympraxis Consulting demo site which shows what we have done so far. Take a look and let me know:
- What else you’d like to see implemented
- What you think of the implementation choices so far
- Whether you might have some jQuery code to contribute
We’ll move this over to Codeplex once it’s a bit more fleshed out.
One final note: We know that SharePoint 2010 will have a built-in client object model, but we don’t expect SharePoint 2007 will disappear just yet. Do you?
3 comments
Tom Resing
August 18, 2009 at 2:47 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Very cool. I like how you implemented the demo. Thanks for sharing and I look forward to the codeplex project.
Tom Resing
August 21, 2009 at 6:36 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
My co-worker, David McWee, has taken you example and used it in a solution. See http://blogs.microlinkllc.com/dmcwee/archive/2009/08/21/jquery-to-sharepoint-web-services.aspx
-Tom
Marc
August 21, 2009 at 7:01 pm (UTC -4) Link to this comment
Tom:
Thanks for the heads up about David’s post. I left him a comment asking for ideas and feedback on our library.
M.