Handling dates with Asp.Net MVC and KnockoutJS

Question

I recently started working with KnockoutJs and quickly realized using the default Json(myModelWithADate) resulted in the default json encoding of \\/Date(

Answer 1

A cleaner alternative to @photo_tom's answer is to decorate the property with the IsoDateTimeConverter via the JsonConverter attribute, like so:

public class MyClass
{
    [JsonConverter(typeof(IsoDateTimeConverter))]
    public DateTime Timestamp { get; set; }
}