Looking for Microsoft Index Server ASP.NET samples

Question

i am not a programmer, but i can frankenstein code snippets with sufficient proficiency that if, by the grace of a few good souls, i could come across some sample ASP code that acts as a GUI to the ms index server, i could certainly make it work and look good.

if anyone can offer any help, i would do a backflip. but i won't put it on youtube. there's enough faceplant videos out there.

summary: does anyone know where i can find index server asp pages? the more complete, the better. snippets are more than welcome.

btw: io tagged this as sharepoint since this is so similar. some moss admins will certainly be able to lend me a hand!

Answer 1

How about some samples from CodeProject? Would that suit your needs? I'm sorry I can't offer any more specific help without knowing more details and what you are trying to do.

Microsoft Index Server class for ASP (classic ASP)

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Answer 2

To talk to an index server catalogue from asp.net you can use an ole db connection object.

OleDbConnection conn = new OleDbConnection("Provider=MSIDXS;Integrated Security .=;Data Source=" + catalogName);
            cmdQuery = new OleDbCommand(query, conn);

Where catalogName is the name of the catalog on your machine you are querying. And query is a string containing the index query you are using.

 //Get reader 
 rQuery = cmdQuery.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior.CloseConnection);

 //Create dataset and load values from reader into it
 dataQuery = new DataSet("IndexResults");
 dataQuery.Load(rQuery, LoadOption.OverwriteChanges, new string[] { "" });

 //Return the first table which will be the results from the query
 results = dataQuery.Tables[0].Copy();

Don't forget to dispose of the connection and reader in a finally statement :)

Index query itself is very similar to SQL - you can also set properties in the query to be used as aliases so it is easier to read.