Why doesn't jquery turn my array into a json string before sending to asp.net web method?

Question

So far, I\'ve only been passing javascript strings to my web methods, which get parsed, usually as Guids. but now i have a method that accepts an IList... on the client, i b

Answer 1

data: "{'backerEntries':" + backerEntries + "}",

..is the same as

data: "{'backerEntries':" + backerEntries.toString() + "}",

...which is pretty much useless. Use Duncan's suggestion if you just want to pass an encoded list of values with the name "backerEntries" in your querystring. If you want to JSON-encode the data, then get a JSON library and call JSON.stringify().