Is there a way to ignore Windows search indexing for certain patterns? For example, I would like to skip the following folders: C:\Git**.git\ C:\Git**\packages\ C:\misc\git**.git\ C:\misc\git**\p...

Currently I'm trying to query the Windows Search Service from a SQL Server 2008 R2 instance (also tested on SQL Server 2012) . Windows Search is being exposed as an OLE DB datasource, giving me sev...

I'm working on an application, an user can search for files or folders either on the local computer or on the network. I am using DirectoryInfo.GetDirecotories(). But I also want to add the functi...

I have a requirement to search file in a given location for specified content. These files will be searched via a web-application (which may not necessarily be on the same server), and should updat...

I really like the fuzzy matching search algorithm that Sublime Text 2 uses for its command palette and I was hoping to create something similar that runs through the Windows 7 Start menu search. I...

I am looking for a code that gets results of full text search using Windows search (it should be available in Vista, 7 and 8 by default). I have found some questions here and some texts on msdn, b...

I'm trying to add a location (scope) to my Windows 8 Search Index programmatically, and after some googling, I found this code: Set objISAdm = CreateObject("Microsoft.ISAdm") Set objCatal...

I am working on a Windows Explorer Namespace Extension which is a virtual filesystem. With regards to this, I would like to support search from the search dialog available in Windows Explorer. Cur...

My development team are having a problem having snippets of text shown for search results in windows 7 for our own custom files (note we are NOT talking about the preview pane that uses the IPrevie...

I would like to get to query Windows Vista Search service directly ( or indirectly ) from Java. I know it is possible to query using the search-ms: protocol, but I would like to consume the resul...