Passing list from MVC ViewBag to JavaScript

Question

I have a list of users which I pass from my controller to my view using the view bag. Now I need to be able to pass the same list to the javascript on the page. I could reconstr

Answer 1

Another option, could be to create a new action in your controller returning a JsonResult. This json result could return your list. In your page you can call the action with jquery and use it from there.

public ActionResult GetMyList()
{
    var list = GetMyUserList();

    return Json(new { userlist = list }, JsonRequestBehaviour.AllowGet);
}