JSON, MVC2 Disordered data in even cell cointainers - json

Question

I got into troubles trying to feed the jqgrid with required information. I did everything as suppose to be done, but apparently there is an issue.
Every second cell is order differently, so first row is ok:
[{"id":"AA1","cell":["AA1","AD + DNS + WINS","dev"]},
but the next one is ordered like below:
{"id":"AA2","cell":["dev","AD + DNS + WINS","AA2"]}
when 3rd is ok, and 4th is disordered and so on.
Code which is responsible for this process is below:
var jsonData = new
{
total = totalPages,
page = page,
records = totalRecords,
rows = (
from l in lst
select new
{
id = l.HostName,
cell = new List<string> {
l.HostName, l.Description, l.Type
}
}).ToArray()
};
return Json(jsonData, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
Why is like that? I was trying use instead of List the String[], but Linq doesn't like that and pop up error, which suggest List instead of string array.
Is there any way to sustain desired order?

Answer 1

What was your code to use string[]? I got this working without any trouble:
var jsonData = new
{
total = totalPages,
page = page,
records = totalRecords,
rows = (from l in lst
select new
{
id = l.HostName,
cell = new string[] {
l.HostName,
l.Description,
l.Type
}
}).ToArray()
};
You can find similar samples here (but remember that in general they are very old and I would suggest looking at more up to date ones here or here).