Any downsides to using ASP.Net AJAX and JQuery together

Question

We are planning to use the jQuery library to augment our client side JavaScript needs.

Are there any major issues in trying to use both ASP.Net AJAX and jQuery? Both li

Answer 1

The developers of ASP.NET Ajax took specific steps to make sure that the library could be used in conjunction with jQuery.

For example, the ATLAS CTP (the beta which became ASP.NET Atlas) used to have a $() function, but it was removed and replaced with $get().