Many JavaScript toolkits and frameworks have their own wrappers for making HTTP requests. For example, Angular has an $http service, and jQuery has an ajax() method. If you have a favorite you can use that with C1 MVC.

If you want to reduce dependencies on external toolkits and frameworks, you can use C1 MVC's simple and flexible httpRequest method instead.

The example below illustrates by retrieving some data from Microsoft's Northwind OData sample service and using that to populate a FlexGrid:

// This file locates: "Scripts/Lesson/C1Mvc/WijmoHttpRequest.js".
c1.documentReady(function () {
    // parameters for httpRequest
    var url = 'https://services.odata.org/V4/Northwind/Northwind.svc/Categories';
    var params = {
        '$format': 'json',
        '$select': 'CategoryID,CategoryName,Description'
    };
 
    // make the request
    wijmo.httpRequest(url, {
        data: params,
        success: function (xhr) {
 
            // show results in a grid
            var grid = wijmo.Control.getControl('#theGrid');
            grid.itemsSource = JSON.parse(xhr.responseText).value;
 
            // make last column fill the grid
            grid.columns[grid.columns.length - 1].width = '*';
        }
    });
});

using System.Web.Mvc;
 
namespace LearnMvcClient.Controllers
{
    public partial class C1MvcController : Controller
    {
        // GET: WijmoHttpRequest
        public ActionResult WijmoHttpRequest()
        {
            return View();
        }
    }
}

<h1>
    @Html.Raw(Resources.C1Mvc.WijmoHttpRequest_Title)
</h1>
<p>
    @Html.Raw(Resources.C1Mvc.WijmoHttpRequest_Text1)
</p>
<p>
    @Html.Raw(Resources.C1Mvc.WijmoHttpRequest_Text2)
</p>
<p>
    @Html.Raw(Resources.C1Mvc.WijmoHttpRequest_Text3)
</p>
<p>
    @Html.Raw(Resources.C1Mvc.WijmoHttpRequest_Text4)
</p>
@Html.C1().FlexGrid().Id("theGrid").IsReadOnly(true).Height(200)