Any way to prevent Telerik from including jQuery?

[James Lance]

We're already including jQuery in all of our pages and there is no need to include it twice.

[Paul]

Hi James,

Please refer to this blog post for details on the matter.

Sincerely yours,
Paul
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[SelAromDotNet]

I don't see anything in that post that explains how to disable or prevent the embedded jquery reference. I too am using my own jquery reference and want to disable the embedded one, how is this done?

[Simon]

Hello SelArom,

You can override our jQuery reference to point to your version of the jQuery.js if you add the following ScriptReference to the Scripts section of your ScriptManager:

<asp:ScriptReference Assembly="Telerik.Web.UI" Name="Telerik.Web.UI.Common.jQuery.js" Path="[path_to_jQuery.js]" />

Regards,
Simon
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[Dave]

The problem with this is that jQuery plugins are also being nuked by the re-inclusion. So I have to hack around that too. Obviously the person who implemented this as a concept didn't understand the dynamic nature of Javascript objects or perhaps just didn't care about the possibility of other jQuery plugins.