<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ? />
<OpenSearchDescription xmlns="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/">
    <ShortName>My Site's Asset Finder</ShortName>
    <Description>Find all your assets</Description>
    <Url type="text/html"
        method="get"
        template="http://MySite.com/Home/Search/?q=searchTerms"/>
    <InputEncoding>UTF-8</InputEncoding>
    <SearchForm>http://MySite.com/</SearchForm>
</OpenSearchDescription>

using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using System.Xml;

namespace WebToolkit
{
    public class OpenSearchResult : ActionResult
    {
        public string ShortName { set; get; }
        public string Description { set; get; }
        public string SearchForm { set; get; }
        public string FavIconUrl { set; get; }
        public string SearchUrlTemplate { set; get; }

        public override void ExecuteResult(ControllerContext context)
        {
            if (context == null)
                throw new ArgumentNullException("context");

            var response = context.HttpContext.Response;
            writeToResponse(response);
        }

        private void writeToResponse(HttpResponseBase response)
        {
            response.ContentEncoding = Encoding.UTF8;
            response.ContentType = "application/opensearchdescription+xml";
            using (var xmlWriter = XmlWriter.Create(response.Output, new XmlWriterSettings { Indent = true }))
            {
                xmlWriter.WriteStartElement("OpenSearchDescription", "http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/");

                xmlWriter.WriteElementString("ShortName", ShortName);
                xmlWriter.WriteElementString("Description", Description);
                xmlWriter.WriteElementString("InputEncoding", "UTF-8");
                xmlWriter.WriteElementString("SearchForm", SearchForm);

                xmlWriter.WriteStartElement("Url");
                xmlWriter.WriteAttributeString("type", "text/html");
                xmlWriter.WriteAttributeString("template", SearchUrlTemplate);                
                xmlWriter.WriteEndElement();

                xmlWriter.WriteStartElement("Image");
                xmlWriter.WriteAttributeString("width", "16");
                xmlWriter.WriteAttributeString("height", "16");
                xmlWriter.WriteString(FavIconUrl);
                xmlWriter.WriteEndElement();

                xmlWriter.WriteEndElement();
                xmlWriter.Close();
            }
        }
    }
}

using System.Web.Mvc;

namespace Readers
{
    public partial class OpenSearchController : Controller
    {
        public virtual ActionResult Index()
        {
            var fullBaseUrl = Url.Action(result: MVC.Home.Index(), protocol: "http");
            return new OpenSearchResult
            {
                ShortName = ".NET Tips",
                Description = ".NET Tips Contents Search",
                SearchForm = fullBaseUrl,
                FavIconUrl = fullBaseUrl + "favicon.ico",
                SearchUrlTemplate = Url.Action(result: MVC.Search.Index(), protocol: "http") + "?term={searchTerms}"
            };
        }
    }
}

<link href="@Url.Action(result: MVC.OpenSearch.Index(), protocol: "http")" rel="search"
        title=".NET Tips Search"  type="application/opensearchdescription+xml" />