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    copied!<p>I am trying to implement a feature similar to the Related Questions on StackOverflow, I am doing this in MVC.</p> <pre><code>$().ready(function() { var s = $("#Summary").val(); $("#Summary").blur(function() { QuestionSuggestions(s); }); }); function GetPastIssues(title) { $(document).ready(function() { $.ajax({ type: "POST", url: "/Issue/GetSimilarIssues", contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8", dataType: "xml", dataType: "json", data: "{'title':'" + title + "'}", processData: false, error: function(XMLHttpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown) { ajaxError(XMLHttpRequest, textStatus, errorThrown); }, success: function(xml) { ajaxFinish(xml); } }); }); function ajaxFinish(xml) { if (xml.d != "NO DATA") { $('#question-suggestions').html(xml.d); //alert(xml.d); // This ALERT IS returning undefined $('#question-suggestions').show(); } } </code></pre> <p>The data being returned from my controller is 'undefined', as shown by the commented line in ajaxFinish.<br> <strong>What am I doing wrong?</strong></p> <pre><code>//[AcceptVerbs(HttpVerbs.Get)] [JsonParamFilter(Param = "title", TargetType = typeof(string))] public ActionResult GetSimilarIssues(string title) { var issues = _db.GetSimilarIssues(title).ToList(); if (title == null || issues.Count() == 0) return Json("NO DATA"); string retVal = null; foreach (Issue issue in _db.GetSimilarIssues(title)) { retVal += "&lt;div class='answer-summary' style='width: 610px;'&gt;"; retVal += "&lt;a href='Issue.aspx?projid=" + issue.ProjectId.ToString() + "&amp;issuetypeid=" + issue.IssueTypeId.ToString() + "&amp;issueid=" + issue.IssueId.ToString() + "'&gt;"; retVal += issue.Summary; retVal += "&lt;/a&gt;"; retVal += "&lt;/div&gt;"; } return Json(retVal); } </code></pre> <p>EDIT:</p> <p>I think what will help me learn and implement a solution to my senario is if I can get some insight into how StackOverflow implements this javascript method:</p> <pre><code>function QuestionSuggestions() { var s = $("#title").val(); if (s.length &gt; 2) { document.title = s + " - Stack Overflow"; $("#question-suggestions").load("/search/titles?like=" + escape(s)); } </code></pre> <p>Looks like a '<strong>Search</strong>' folder in the Views folder and a <strong>PartialView</strong> called '<strong>Title</strong>'. A <strong>SearchController</strong>.cs with the following method:</p> <pre><code>public ActionResult titles(string like) { // HOW TO IMPLEMENT THIS return PartialView("Titles"); } </code></pre> <p>What goes in the Titles.ascx to display the html?</p>
 

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