Passing Data From C# To Jquery

Seeking some advice how to best handle the following situation, I am a sole-programmer. I am currently developing a C# Winforms application, new functionality that I am writing al

Solution 1:

1. you will need a REST service, which you will call from UI using jQuery.

2. your REST service will have to return a JSON result , otherwise it will make things more complicated.

3. in UI you will call the webservice using $.ajax() function.

   once you got your results back from service , you can manipulate data in javascript and display it

Solution 2:

Probably the best way to do it is to create a web service (WCF or Asmx) for accessing data and let your client (Processing.js) fetch the data from there using JSON or XML once the page is loaded. Using such services with jQuery ajax method is trivial, and you'll get cleaner MVC-like environment on the client side.

So, to reiterate:

1. Create a web service using C# and your existing methods to retrieve the data from the DB and send it to client over HTTP
2. Access this service using ajax or similar functions from jQuery core library.
3. Process the data on the client side and create the necessary DOM elements for fetched data.

Solution 3:

You need to make an Ajax call(Web Method) to the server to send/receive the data. Your .NET code in the back-end would do the connection to the database.