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Windows Search(former Indexing Service, up to Windows Vista), also known as Windows Desktop Search, is the Windows service that indexes files on the user's hard drive.

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Full-text search using Windows Search Service and SQL Server 2008 R2

Currently I'm trying to query the Windows Search Service from a SQL Server 2008 R2 instance (also tested on SQL Server 2012) . Windows Search is being exposed as an OLE DB datasource, giving me several options to query the search index. When…
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Windows search - full text search in c#

I am looking for a code that gets results of full text search using Windows search (it should be available in Vista, 7 and 8 by default). I have found some questions here and some texts on msdn, but none of them have some exact code that works. I…
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Windows Search - Is there a better way?

I have a requirement to search file in a given location for specified content. These files will be searched via a web-application (which may not necessarily be on the same server), and should update in near realtime. After looking around for…
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Windows Search - IFilter search term highlighting

My development team are having a problem having snippets of text shown for search results in windows 7 for our own custom files (note we are NOT talking about the preview pane that uses the IPreviewHandler interface). An example of what I mean for…
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How to use Windows Search Service in c#

I'm working on an application, an user can search for files or folders either on the local computer or on the network. I am using DirectoryInfo.GetDirecotories(). But I also want to add the functionality that windows 7 uses for searching, I believe…
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Modify Windows 7 Start menu search algorithm?

I really like the fuzzy matching search algorithm that Sublime Text 2 uses for its command palette and I was hoping to create something similar that runs through the Windows 7 Start menu search. I already found the Windows API Code Pack for .NET…
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How do I write a custom search provider for Windows Explorer search UI

I am working on a Windows Explorer Namespace Extension which is a virtual filesystem. With regards to this, I would like to support search from the search dialog available in Windows Explorer. Currently I'm able to search by name in the folder I'm…
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Query Windows Search from Java

I would like to get to query Windows Vista Search service directly ( or indirectly ) from Java. I know it is possible to query using the search-ms: protocol, but I would like to consume the result within the app. I have found good information in…
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Is there a way to ignore Windows search indexing for certain patterns?

Is there a way to ignore Windows search indexing for certain patterns? For example, I would like to skip the following folders: C:\Git**.git\ C:\Git**\packages\ C:\misc\git**.git\ C:\misc\git**\packages\ These cause thousands of extra noise matches…
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How to add a location to windows 7/8 search index using batch or vbscript?

I'm trying to add a location (scope) to my Windows 8 Search Index programmatically, and after some googling, I found this code: Set objISAdm = CreateObject("Microsoft.ISAdm") Set objCatalog = objISAdm. GetCatalogByName("MyCatatlog") Set objScope=…
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Querying the Microsoft Search Index using Python

I am trying to find a way to run an SQL query on the Windows Search Index. This is possible quite easily using .NET or Powershell, but no matter what I do, I can't seem to make it work in Python. I tried using PyODBC and riding on the JET4 driver,…
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Can't query SystemIndex on my own machine when I specify the machine name

I'm trying to write a simple program that would connect to remote machines and query the indexing status. Here's the code that does it on my machine. This works OK. using System; using Microsoft.Search.Interop; namespace IndexStatus { class…
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ASP.NET OLEDB code breaks when deployed on IIS7

I'm trying to write a simple website (ASP.NET v4), which will call Windows Search, find a specific file and return it to the user. I've put together the following as an example: it calls the Windows Search service on "remoteserver", and returns the…
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How to add folder into windows indexing list with windows search api

In Indexing Options, there’s a list of locations in ‘Index these locations’, is there a way to add a folder which created from my app into the list through c#?
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Windows 8.1 In-App Search Control AND Search Pane (Search Charm)?

I'm trying to use the new 8.1 SearchBox Control in WinJS, but if I already have a Search Contract bound to my app for the Search Charm, I get an access denied error: Can't hide this app in the search pane because the app has already accessed the…
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