Resources for coding against SharePoint's Search API

Thursday, May 12, 2005

It's a common scenario to want to use the great Search and Index engines from SharePoint Portal server in other .NET applications, or to customise results for a particular purpose. Some of these are pretty hard to find, so I thought I'd organize them in one place.

Microsoft® SharePoint™ Portal Server: Advanced Technologies for Information Search and Retrieval

http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/server/techinfo/administration/search.asp

SharePoint 2003 Object Models and Search

http://www.sharepointcustomization.com/resources/whitepapers/SPS2003%20Object%20Models%20and%20Search.pdf

Using SharePoint search in an ASP.NET application with noise filtering

http://andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2004/07/15/405.aspx

Using SharePoint Portal Server to Index Your Custom Application

http://www.devx.com/dotnet/Article/27998?trk=DXRSS_DOTNET

Integrating Microsoft SharePoint Portal Search into Microsoft Content Management Server 2002

http://msdn.microsoft.com/archive/default.asp?url=/archive/en-us/dnarmscms/html/mcmssrch.asp