jquery autocomplete c# List<string> as a source

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I have seen many examples where JQuery autocomplete gets a json response from code behind. I seems a little counter productive to turn my list into json then back to an array of strings on client side. I have a web method in code behind that returns a List of the results that I want the autocomplete to use, is there a way to just call that method from JQuery (I am very very new to JQuery, actually just started messing with it tonight).

     <script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function () {
        $("#txtbox").autocomplete({
           source :

Have no idea where to go from here...

That question is for reading json response in JQuery, I am trying to see if there is a way to call a method that will return a simple string array or List right to JQuery — Scott Selby
– Scott Selby, Commented May 10, 2012 at 6:03
Remember that jQuery is JavaScript running on the client, while your web method is (presumably) C# running on the web server. In a conventional browser situation like this they are communicating via an http request from the client where the browser returns what is essentially a string. So no, you can't just call your web method directly from JavaScript (including jQuery) on the client. If you only want to convert the data once you could return html instead of JSON, though I'm not sure how that fits with the autoComplete jQuery plugin. — nnnnnn
– nnnnnn, Commented May 10, 2012 at 6:06
I had a feeling that was the answer, that sucks, on the bright side I always use XML because I know it well and I always avoid json because I don,t here's a good chance for me to learn , thanks — Scott Selby
– Scott Selby, Commented May 10, 2012 at 6:11

Jayantha Lal Sirisena · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-10 06:10:40Z

1

In Server side,

[WebMethod]
[ScriptMethod(ResponseFormat = ResponseFormat.Json)] 
public List<RetUsers> GetSomething()
{
//populate ur list here
  return list;
}

In Jquery,

 $("#txtbox").autocomplete({
           source : 'your url here'

answered May 10, 2012 at 6:10

Jayantha Lal Sirisena

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