Update A Partial View From Another Partial View - ASP.NET MVC2

I want to have two partial views, one for SEARCH and one for SEARCHRESULTS.

I want to update SEARCHRESULTS when the "Search" Button is clicked on the SEARCH partial view 开发者_开发问答form. SEARCHRESULTS needs to have the form data fed to it from the SEARCH partial view.

I'm not totally sure how to go about this. Can I update the SEARCHRESULTS partial view from my SEARCH partial view's Controller action?

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General Discussion
In the MVC design pattern views are unaware of each other. They may be bound together by the concept of a view assembling multiple partial views but even then the partials are ignorant of each other. This concept is true for ASP.NET MVC. Mike Brind does a good job describing partials and ViewData in his post ASP.NET MVC Partial Views and Strongly Typed Custom ViewModels.

Specific to your Question
To answer your question a partial view can have a link to a controller action that renders a different view, so long as the appropriate information is passed to the controller. How you go about this will depend on what you are trying to do.

Given your question I am going to assume that the SEARCH partial view is a simple form with a search field and button. While SEARCHRESULTS is a listing of the returned data. In this instance you'd create a controller action called Search which takes in a string value and returns just the SEARCHRESULTS partial or a view containing the SEARCHRESULTS partial. Scott Guthrie provides a pretty good description of passing data to a view in his blog post Passing ViewData from Controllers to Views.

// returning partial
public ActionResult Search(string q)
{
    //do search .......
    //.................

    return PartialView("SEARCHREULTS", viewdata);
}