Using jquery with asp.net mvc

by ASP.net MVC's built-in extensibility, developers can use third party libraries, such as jquery. When using ASP.net webforms, it is more difficult to use jquery instead of asp.net AJAX.

At the beginning of this article, the version of ASP.net mvc was preview 4, and some of the techniques used in preview 4 might not work in earlier versions. Preview 4 can be downloaded from the CodePlex.

Preliminary configuration

I'm not going to write it as a complete jquery guide, but simply give you a few examples of using this JavaScript library with asp.net mvc. Chad Myers has an excellent guide, including how to get started.

First make sure you have asp.net mvc, so download the installation from CodePlex First (note: You need to run visual Studio 2008 to use the ASP.net MVC framework).

After the ASP.net MVC framework is installed, a new asp.net mvc Web creator project should have been created.

Next, download jquery, download the packed or minified version, and put it in the content directory of the project above.

Add a reference to the jquery file under the content directory.

Simple example

Ryan Lanciaux wrote an excellent article called the jquery and asp.net MVC framework, which lists many of the key factors in using jquery in the asp.net MVC framework. Ryan made a detailed exposition in the article:

The first thing to do is create a asp.net MVC (Preview 4) project, create a new view and a controller action under Home controller, and add the following lines to the view.

This is red text,this are blueand this is green

Right-click the Controllers folder, select "Add New Item", and then select the MVC controller class to complete the task. The next step is to create a controller Action:

Next, we need to create a controller Action that returns the color value from model. And we don't want to overload the page, we want to use Ajax. Luckily, we can do this with the Jsonresult type in the MVC framework.

Next, create a class to represent the colors in model:

The final step is to assemble everything together with some jquery code:

Ryan points to an important place:

Note that the jquery code is raised in our controller using the JSON method. If we overload the page, it gets the color value defined in model. No pain at all. It's simple, but it can be used on the web.