Html.BeginForm and Kendo Ui in MVC 4 - ajax

Question

So what I have is a form created with the beginform extension like this
using (Html.BeginForm("SendEmail", "Email", FormMethod.Post, new { id = "emailForm",
onsubmit = "return Check();"})){
inside I created some Kendo Ui widget like this
<table>
<tr>
<td>#Html.LabelFor(x => x.Senders)</td>
<td>
#(Html.Kendo().DropDownList()
.Name("Sender")
.DataTextField("Text")
.DataValueField("Value")
.BindTo(Model.Senders))
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>#Html.Raw(Server.HtmlDecode(#Model.RecipientTable))</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan ="2">
#(Html.Kendo().MultiSelect()
.Name("Users")
.DataTextField("Name")
.DataValueField("Id")
.Placeholder("Optional - Choose additional users to send emails to:")
.ItemTemplate("#=LastName #, #=FirstName # #=MiddleInitial #")
.TagTemplate("#=LastName #, #=FirstName # #=MiddleInitial #")
.BindTo(Model.OptionalUsers))
</td>
</tr>
in my controller Email I have this method
[HttpPost]
public bool SendEmail(EmailModel Email){ .. stuff....}
Where the EmailModel is tightly bind to the view that contains the form from above. The question and trouble I am having is that is it possible and if so how, to have the model passed to the method containing information about what the user chose? Or is it that I can not use the form's submit and will have to manually get the value and pass it as a JSON to the controller via custom function that does a ajax call?

Answer 1

I thought I read that you weren't using post. The only items that are returned automatically through the post are fields that have been put in a for helper. What we do is
#Html.DropDownListFor(x => x.Sender, new { #class = "ddlSender" })
then in the script we initialize the kendo part of it
$('.ddlSender').kendoDropDownList();
this way the model item is put in a for helper so it gets posted back to the controller and you get the benefits of the kendo dropdown. Hope this helps