Get JSON data with jQuery from a .NET service: confused with ajax setup

Question

I\'ve just spent six hours trying to get this straight in my head and I haven\'t succeeded.

There\'s a HelloWorld .NET 3.5 web service on my local machine. Set up as

Answer 1

when posting to asp.net web services you always have to set the content type to that - it's their way of preventing json hijacking.

About the dates the easiest solution would be to return the dates as strings dealing date types on the client side will be a huge PITA (from my experience at least).