jQuery.msAjax plugin

Eases the pain of dealing with legacy Microsoft web services technologies (ASMX, WCF, JsonDataContractSerializer).

• Correctly serializes/deserializes Microsoft’s date format and revives dates into a JavaScript Date object. ** Supports ISO8601 dates as well.
• Remove Microsoft specific JSON wrappers, including the “d” property, the embedded “__type” property
• Wont do any of this if the JSON object isn’t Microsoft-styled

Note: This is not necessary when using ASP.NET MVC 4+ with Web API (which uses JSON.NET) by default). WebAPI uses ISO8601 dates and doesn’t add any Microsoft specific properties to JSON objects.

Dependencies

jQuery.msAjax has two dependencies:

• date-parse.js (also part of skinny.js).

• For less-than-awesome browsers that don’t support JSON.parse() or JSON.stringify(), you should include a polyfill, such as Doug Crockford’s json2.js.

Example Usage:

ASMX

    $.msAjax({
        url: 'PersonWebService.asmx', 
        methodName: 'GetPerson', 
        data: {'personId': 1}, 
        success: function(oPerson) { alert(oPerson.Name); },
        error: function() { logSomething(arguments); }
    });

WCF (REST style)

    $.msAjax({
        url: 'PersonWebService.svc/People/1', 
        success: function(oPerson) { alert(oPerson.Name); },
        error: function() { logSomething(arguments); }
    });