Is it possible to call the OS Search (Start/Search) from a windows
form application?

What I'm looking is to develop an interactive cd using vb.net with
search capabilities. The cd will have some pdf, word , excel and html
documents, and what I need is to have the possiblity to search for
some text inside these files (the same that I can do with the windows
search)

Thank in advance
Juan Miguel Lavista

Re: Search Files using OS Search by Sijin

Sijin
Sun Sep 05 00:10:44 CDT 2004

Yes you can use Indexing Service to search, but yu should be aware that
by default the filter for pdf documents and office documents are not
installed on the indexing service hence it will not be able to search
for text inside these documents. The filters get installed only when the
corresponding apps are installed i.e. (Adobe Acrobat or Reader and MS
Office)

To see how you can use the Indexing Service from your .Net application
check out this article
http://idunno.org/dotNet/indexserver.aspx

It's for ASP.Net but the code code remains the same.

Btw i also came across this while researching
http://www.copernic.com/en/products/desktop-search/
seems nice :)

Sijin Joseph
http://www.indiangeek.net
http://weblogs.asp.net/sjoseph



Juan Miguel Lavista wrote:
> Is it possible to call the OS Search (Start/Search) from a windows
> form application?
>
> What I'm looking is to develop an interactive cd using vb.net with
> search capabilities. The cd will have some pdf, word , excel and html
> documents, and what I need is to have the possiblity to search for
> some text inside these files (the same that I can do with the windows
> search)
>
> Thank in advance
> Juan Miguel Lavista

Re: Search Files using OS Search by juanmiguell

juanmiguell
Sun Sep 05 10:53:29 CDT 2004

Hi Sijin, thanks for your fast response.
I'm Using Indexing services for the server side and works perfect.
My problem is that I can't use Indexing services for the cd because by
default there are only some directories indexed and I think that the
CD is not one of them.
Off course I could install the whole content in the client side but
that is not the idea, and as you say I would still have the problem
with the PDFs.
I'm reading about copernic , the product looks awsome , but appears to
be a standalone product.

Thanks you very much
Juan Miguel





Sijin Joseph <sijinNOSPAMdotnet@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<OH9IgbwkEHA.3988@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl>...
> Yes you can use Indexing Service to search, but yu should be aware that
> by default the filter for pdf documents and office documents are not
> installed on the indexing service hence it will not be able to search
> for text inside these documents. The filters get installed only when the
> corresponding apps are installed i.e. (Adobe Acrobat or Reader and MS
> Office)
>
> To see how you can use the Indexing Service from your .Net application
> check out this article
> http://idunno.org/dotNet/indexserver.aspx
>
> It's for ASP.Net but the code code remains the same.
>
> Btw i also came across this while researching
> http://www.copernic.com/en/products/desktop-search/
> seems nice :)
>
> Sijin Joseph
> http://www.indiangeek.net
> http://weblogs.asp.net/sjoseph
>
>
>
> Juan Miguel Lavista wrote:
> > Is it possible to call the OS Search (Start/Search) from a windows
> > form application?
> >
> > What I'm looking is to develop an interactive cd using vb.net with
> > search capabilities. The cd will have some pdf, word , excel and html
> > documents, and what I need is to have the possiblity to search for
> > some text inside these files (the same that I can do with the windows
> > search)
> >
> > Thank in advance
> > Juan Miguel Lavista