Latest Searching Articles

Building a Regular Expression Stream Search with the .NET Framework

By Jeffrey Juday - Published 01/04/2008

Learn to implement a Regular Expression search for .NET Streams.

An Introduction to Vista's Integrated Search Capabilities

By Matt Goebel - Published 05/18/2007

Windows Vista adds brand new search capabilities directly from the OS itself. By using OLE DB and SQL, you now can add this functionality to your own applications.

User Profiles and Audience Targeting in SharePoint 2007

By Sahil Malik - Published 02/14/2007

Organizations struggle with communicating only relevant information to its members, especially when that information lives in disparate systems that do not talk to each other. SharePoint 2007 provides an answer with user profiles and audience targeting.

Creating an Ajax Search Widget

By Jeremy McPeak - Published 08/11/2006

See how easy it is to integrate a search widget on your site using Ajax with this detailed example from Professional Ajax author Nicholas C. Zakas.

Full-Text Searching with IFilters

By Klaus Salchner - Published 08/03/2005

Indexing Server, SQL Server, Windows SharePoint Services, SharePoint Portal Server, Exchange Server, and Windows Desktop Search provide full-text search capabilities. Each utilizes so-called IFilter components to index the content and then allows clients to search the index. Learn how IFilter components are utilized and how full-text searching works in each of those products.

Administrate Indexing Server from Within Your Application

By Klaus Salchner - Published 07/13/2005

Learn to programmatically administrate Indexing Server; for example, create a new Indexing catalog and then add folders to be indexed by this catalog.