Question

In ASP.NET, I would have an ascx control, and it would call Scriptmanager.RegisterClientScriptBlock in its own Load() method.

I’d have a block of javascript like

var myObject = CreateNewMyObject(param, param, param...);

which would be a method in my javascript library to go off and create the control on the page.

However in MVC I have never done this before so I am unsure what to do.

I can call a method such as @(this.Html.RenderMyObject(param, param)) which will return fully rendered html, but I want to do it as above – the javascript function renders the html.

Should I return var myObject = CreateNewMyObject(param, param, param...); from a method like this, or is there a much nicer way?

Answer 1

I think the idea with MVC, especially with Razor, is that you use Javascript as you want to. If I understand your question correctly, you could call your javascript function directly in the onLoad javascript function on the Razor page.

<script type="text/javascript">
$(function () {
    myMethodCall();
</script>

However, if the only thing your javascript does is paint up a control, I would recommend creating a @HTML Helper like you mentioned in your question.