using viewbag with jquery - asp.net mvc 3

Question

I have a ViewBag.IsLocal set to true in controller. I would like to use jquery to check the ViewBag value and display an alert.

Code:

if(@ViewBag.IsL         


        

Answer 1

Assuming you have set the IsLocal property to a boolean value in your controller action:

public ActionResult Index()
{
    ViewBag.IsLocal = true;
    return View();
}

you could do this on the view:

And please don't use ViewBag/ViewData. Use view models and strongly typed views.

So here's a better approach that I prefer. You could JSON serialize your view model into a javascript variable and then deal with it. Like this:

@model MyViewModel

Obviously if you don't need your entire view model you could JSON serialize only a subset of it => only the part that will be needed by client scripts.