EntityDTO.cs

// This is an example of one of the types of objects
// that'll get put into the "items" property of the
// GridResultsViewModel DTO above

// Each "item" is a row. That is, each EntityDTO is a
// row in the grid

// the "cells" property is what gets bound to the
// cells in each row

// It's up to you to get the display value for each cell

public class EntityDTO
{
    public Guid id { get; set; }
    public string[] cell { get; set; }
}

GridResultsViewModel.cs

public class GridResultsViewModel
{
    public int total { get; set; }
    public int lastpage { get { return total; } set {  } }
    public bool viewrecords {get{ return true;} set {}}
    public int page { get; set; }
    public int records { get; set; }
    public IEnumerable items { get; set; }
    public string Description { get; set; }
}

jqGridOptions.js

// This is a snippet of the options we pass to 
// jqGrid. We have a bunch of events bound, but
// that wouldn't be interesting to you

height: "auto",
url: gridDefinition.Url,
datatype: 'json',
mtype: 'GET',
readjustHeaderWidths: true,
colNames: columnNames,
colModel: columnModel,
rowNum: 10,
rowList: [3, 10, 20, 30],
loadui: "disable",
postData: initalPostData,
sortorder: "asc",
viewrecords: true,
jsonReader: {
    repeatitems: true,
    root: "items",
    cell: "cell",
    id: "id"
}