AJAX

One of the problems with implementing a search feature that returns a table in a partial view is the Entity Framework model declarations must be strongly-typed. This means we run into difficulties declarating a model in the containing view and an IEnumerable instance of it for the partial view. One way around this is to instead discard the model for the mainview, and use jQuery and AJAX to read values from specific input elements in the main view, and pass those values to the controller action that returns the partial view with the IEnumerable model.