Time for action – implementing the Search view

To implement the Search view, you will create an index that enables searching on the Name field. Then you will create the SearchingCitiesController class and its dedicated View. To display the search results, you will reuse the PartialCities view created in the previous section.

1. Open the World application, right-click on the Indexes folder, add a new class, and name it Cities_SearchByName.

2. Modify the Cities_SearchByName class as follows:

   

3. Create a new Controller class, select the Empty MVC Controller template, and name it SearchingCitiesController.

4. Make the SearchingCitiesController class inherit from RavenBaseController, and add a using statement for the Raven.Client namespace.

5. Modify the SearchingCitiesController class as follows:

   

6. Right-click on the Index() action method of the SearchingCitiesController class, select Add View… to create the Index view.

   1. In the Add View dialog, check the Create a strongly typed-view option.

   2. Choose the City (World.Models...