Through this post I wanted to share with the world something that I have been working on for the past year. I am currently working on a cross platform, low cost desktop content search framework.
I was struck with the idea of developing this framework, when during the course of some assignment I figured out that there is no easy way to search for a file based on it's content,even though such an activity is one of the most common one on any desktop system.
We today do not have cross platform content search and indexing frameworks; most of the content search and indexing frameworks like Windows search make use of platform specific proprietary technologies. Others like Google search while being cross platform provide for integration using platform specific technologies like COM. Worse GDS can only be interacted with using Javascript on non-Windows OS.
The FSSearchIndex framework API has been developed to be simple and easy to use - with just 5 lines of code you can actually build your own indexing or searching application.
This project is open-source and free of cost for usage. It has been hosted on SourceForge.NET and Codeplex.
Request you all to try them and let me know how this can be improved. Any contributions towards this in terms of design, code, testing and documentation are welcome.
Since currently I am developing these single handedly there may be bugs in the Beta code base hosted at the below site.These will be ironed out over time.
Thank you once again and hope you give this framework a try.
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