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

@Darin Dimitrov answer is spot on. I would just like to add to it if anyone is passing a model and not a viewbag.

viewmodel

public class YourViewModel
  {
    public IEnumarable YourPocos { get; set; }
  }

Controller

public class YourController : Controller
{
    public ActionResult Index()
    {
        YourViewModel vm = new YourViewModel{
            // Using Dependancy injection
            YourPocos = yourRepo.GetYourPocos();
        };
        return View("Index", "_Layout",vm);
    }
}

I realise this answer might be redundant, but it is the first time i am using Json.Encode and passing model values to a jquery extension. This for me is too cool. It does to a certain degree create massive extensibility on what would otherwise be an @htmlhelper