Search Files using OS Search

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Juan Miguel Lavista

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
 
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
 
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
 
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