Question

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…

Answer 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'