PageMethods with ASP.Net MVC

Question

I have found ASP.Net PageMethods very handy and easy to use, but I have just started developing using MVC and am not sure how to use them?

What is the equivalent of

Answer 1

I don't think you need page methods. Page methods in asp.net are a way to expose methods in the page class to your client-side code.

In MVC, you don't have a page class, so you can just issue an XHR to a url (../controller/action/params, or whatever), and return JSON from the action.

Update: After re-reading your question, it sounds like you want to know how to issue an XHR from the client. In raw javascript, you can just use the XMLHttpRequest object, but whatever JS library you are using probably has a nicer wrapper. jQuery's, for instance, is here