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make a windows highlight search in c#

Hi there! Would it be possible through c# to actually do a windows search (the one you find in Vista from the menu with higlighting (e.g you write 'fire' and get 'firefox')). Thanks :) ...

Windows Desktop Search via C#

Hi Where can I find documentation about WDS, specifically, using SQL queries from C# to query WDS? Are there any resources listing the columns that can be queried from the SystemIndex? Additionally, I want the query to return the "context" i.e. just like the WDS client does with a few lines from the document where the search terms are f...

Windows Desktop Search - SQL unbelievable slow '%search%'

Hi, I am trying to query the windows desktop search API using SQL. I have to say I really HATE the windows 7 search GUI, and so I decided to write my own. I have a lot of files indexed (approx 1.000.000), and I want to do a search for names. Something like: Show me every name which contains "bunny". But here i run into a performance p...

Alternative to OleDbConnection when query Windows Desktop Search in .NET?

Hello, is there an alternative way to query the WDS (windows desktop search) without using OleDbConnection. If yes, is this way more comfortable... Having to know the colums (SELECT * is not working) and other weird problems let me wish for a "nicer" way, perhaps I am missing something. If not I will have to lern OleDb a little bit mor...

Open mails in outlook from java using the protocol "mapi://"

I developp a Java application using Windows Desktop Search from which I can retrieve some information about files on my computer such as urls (System.ItemUrl). An example of such url is file://c:/users/ausername/documents/aninterestingfile.txt for "normal" files. This field give also urls of mail items indexed from Outlook or Thunderb...

WSSQL query for multiple computers at once

I can run normal searches just fine. Windows 7 won't let me add a network share to my local index, but I can query the remote index just fine. The problem is that I can't find a way to query two indexes at once. I was hoping that something like this would work: SELECT System.ItemName FROM compA.SystemIndex, compB.SystemIndex WHERE ...

Programmaticaly prevent Vista desktop search (WDS) from indexing pst files placed on mapped network drives.

Hi! After several days and multiple attempts I didn't find any 100% solution for this trouble. My search and investigation scopes: Direct access to registry: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Search\CrawlScopeManager\Windows\SystemIndex\WorkingSetRules HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows Search\Gather\Windows\SystemIndex\Protocols\Mapi HKLM\...

Windows Desktop Search - Force re-index / index now from command line.

I'm working on a project where we're using Windows Desktop Search (WDS) to index files on a web share and then later allow the user to search via a website for documents in the share. These documents are transferred to the share via FTP, however it would seem that either the computer never goes idle to index or at some point the indexin...

Question regarding Windows Desktop Search Queried via AQS

Hi All, I am having few doubts regarding WDS querying through AQS. Is there a way to get the previewURL so that we can explicitly get the content with that url Can we get results in the form of pagination? (ie from 10-20) Instead of counting in while loop, Do we have any way to get total number of search hits? Sample code that I am...

Open mails in outlook from C# using the protocol “mapi://”

I wish to execute a URL in the format mapi://{S-1-5-21-1626573300-1364474481-487586288-1001}/[email protected]($b423dcd5)/0/Inbox/가가가가곕갘객겒갨겑곓걌게겻겨곹곒갓곅갩갤가갠가 , which I got from searching via Windows Desktop Search. On Vista with Outlook 2007, this fails to open Emails if outlook is already open. Except sometimes, when it works for myster...