How can I generate client-side view models for knockout in an ASP.NET MVC project?

Question

I am currently working on an ASP.NET MVC solution and have recently introduced both Knockout (an MVVM JS library) and Wijmo (a set of jQuery UI widgets).

With the introd

Answer 1

According to their tutorials it's just a simple .map function

If this is the ViewModel

function Task(data) {
    this.title = ko.observable(data.title);
    this.isDone = ko.observable(data.isDone);
}

And this function get's the data from the server, it uses the .map function to inject the server data right into the VM

// Data
var self = this;
self.tasks = ko.observableArray([]);

// Load initial state from server, convert it to Task instances, then populate self.tasks
$.getJSON("/tasks", function(allData) {
    var mappedTasks = $.map(allData, function(item) {
        return new Task(item)
    });
    self.tasks(mappedTasks);
});

For ko mapping http://knockoutjs.com/documentation/plugins-mapping.html

For auto-bind here's an example

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/knockoutjs/IJTx37UXQVw/UTrWdEK1C-oJ

Answer 2

Try this pluggin for visual studio http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/32c15a80-1c54-4e96-a83f-7cd57573a5d2