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I just received by mail the MSDN shipment list for March.

Do you know what is this tool (in bold) ?

Disc 0003.2 SQL Server 2000 Web Services Toolkit,
Web Services Enhancements v1.0
for Microsoft .NET (English), SQL Server 2000 Notification Services 2.0 (English,
French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional
Chinese)

I am currently working one the Search function for my project Scoilnet.

This site is entirely built with controls, and the content from a database.

I'm quite stuck on something, and more I scratch my poor head, less I find a solution.

I have the choice for the search function between using a Full Text in my SQL stuff, or using Index Server, like the oldest version of the project.

Sadly I don't have really the choice with .Net, because of the way that controls are 'virtually' built on request and not physically present like HTML files.

It's quite a surprise for me to see that apparently nobody notice this side effect of controls. If I have an .aspx page, I can indeed wrap an ADO layer to use specific Index Server functions. But what's about content embedded in controls.

The Content Management System I developped use the database obviously but create static controls and page to build the portal.

I do that to avoid overload the data server with many requests. But of course I can't transform my pages in html, I want to keep the flexibility and programming aspect of .Net.

So for the moment, unless someone bring me some ideas, I work with Full Text and I search directly in the database, with the implication that every piece of content has to be store.

And finally what is the future of Index Server, knowing this kind of limitations ?

Nice article by Dino Esposito

Richard Tallent  answered to my previous blog about this project I have about a voting system:

You know that for obviously security purposes, now a lot of things are lock down with Windows 2003.

Anyway if you want to use it on your laptop for example (you need a good performing one;-)), this is the ultimate guide to do so.

Neowin.Net

Nobody can  resist to an happy face like that ;-)



Read also the interview with Bill Gates by the Seattle Times.

Some part of it:

Roy, here in Ireland I didn't see any snowflake since 2 years ;0)

By the way, which camera you use, the quality is excellent !

Do you know that IE 5+ supports text-rotation ! I found that pretty cool especially if you combine that with Datagrid.
It not .Net but Javascript and it works well for me.

See more details there on WebReference