Get jQuery intellisense in VS.Net when using a CDN

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I recently heard about this technique to get jQuery intellisense working in Visual Studio .Net.  jQuery intellisense traditionally has never worked properly for me because I don’t use <head runat="server"> and thus don’t link to javascript files the MS way.  Most of the sites I build today just reference jQuery on a CDN like Google or Microsoft and that breaks Visual Studio’s ability to find the associated vsdoc.js file.  This works, however:

Add the following line to your master page file in the <head> element area under your normal jQuery script tag.

<% /* %><script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-1.3.2-vsdoc.js"></script><% */ %>

That line wraps the script tag in comments, so the script tag never gets rendered on the client side.  Visual Studio sees a valid file, though, and provides intellisense based off the comments in that file.  Below is a full example page layout:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
  <title>Example jQuery Intellisense</title>
  <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
  <% /* %><script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-1.3.2-vsdoc.js"></script><% */ %>

  <!– Add your own javascript here –>

</head>
<body>
   Do work son
</body>
</html>

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