Introduction

In 2009, Lightning Tools decided to take one of its best-selling products, a desktop application, and put it into the browser as an application page in SharePoint—which turned out to be quite a challenge. When we were looking at technologies to use, jQuery stood out as something that could be really helpful.

We spent a lot of time trying to understand how to make SharePoint and jQuery work together initially, and then we started to learn what jQuery actually could do. Finding the information we needed was often a struggle (not as many blogs on the topic were available at the time), but ultimately we successfully created our product.

I learned so much about jQuery that I jumped at the chance to talk about SharePoint and jQuery when the opportunity arose to speak about them at SPTechCon. I knew that so many people have needed, and will continue to need, to create a client-side solution in SharePoint using jQuery, and I wanted to share the benefit of my experience. In my talk I tried to communicate where to start and how to explore what SharePoint with jQuery can do—and the feedback from the full room at SPTechCon was positive.