Windows indexing service

Yesterday, a colleague wanted to know windows full-text search, but he had never used it before. So yesterday he spent some time learning about Indexing Service and programming.

1. To use the Windows full-text search service, you must first ensure that "Index Service" is installed in "Add/delete Programs \ Add/delete Windows Components ":
Then you can use the Indexing Service, including programming.

After the Index Service is installed, you can find the Index Service in "Computer Management \ service and application \" and set and manage it:


By default, two catalogs, system and web, are used to create and maintain local files and local website indexes. Each catalog contains multiple directories and a set of properties.

2. Documents, programming references, and code snippets related to Windows indexing service can be found in msdn. The following links are provided:

Http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp? Url =/library/en-US/dnanchor/html/indexserv. asp

Http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp? Url =/library/en-US/indexsrv/html/ixrefobj_3skz.asp 3. because indexingservice APIs are provided in the form of COM components, to call related APIs in a program, you must first add references to the following Type Library:

API	Reference	Library
Admin helper	Indexing Service Administration Type Library 1.0	Ciodmlib
Query helper	Ixsso control library	Cisso
ADO	Micorsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)VersionLibrary, whereVersionIs one of the available versions.	ADODB

The following is a programming object for setting and managing the Indexing Service:

Object Name	Description
Adminindexserver	Manages Indexing Service. allows access to all the functionality provided by the Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-in.
Catadm	Manages the collection of scopes for a catalog.
Scopeadm	Manages an individual scope.

The following is a programming object for full-text search through indexingservice:

Object Name	Description
Query	Manages the query definition and result-set creation and navigation.
Utility	Helpful utilities for managing the queries and result sets.

The msdn document provides some simple sample code, including VBScript, JScript, Visual Basic, Visual C ++, and Visual J ++. net code.

4. If you want to use the Indexing Service in the. NET environment, you also need to reference the above three COM components:
Then you can call the API through the class encapsulated by InterOP in the code. The following is a sample code that implements the simple search function:
Complete sample code download: http://phoebusd.mofile.com/4484472520119593/7410790504088141/2/0B459B9BE5C0E179512B394A987B482E/FulltextSearchSample.rar

The program running interface is as follows:


The above is just a simple introduction to the indexing service, and I have attempted to write a very simple example. You are welcome to talk about it and hope you can advise me :)