Windows 7: Find and Organize Part 2 - Building Federated Search applications

Posted By: Dan Fernandez | Nov 4th, 2008 @ 7:50 AM | 52,919 Views | 6 Comments

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In Part 1, you saw the user experience of finding and organizing your files in Windows 7.

In Part 2, David Washington and Brandon Paddock show how developers can build federated search applications that enable you to easily search your organization's intranet or the Web and integrate those search results directly into Windows Explorer.

The best part is that instead of needing to install software on Windows 7 to get new search providers, you simply run an XML configuration file to add a search provider to your machine!

- Watch their PDC session here too

Tags: OpenSearch, RSS, Windows 7

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littleguru
summer time! aperol spritz dreaming...

Hi Brandon! Great overview. I like the split screen view. Smiley

What does specify whether or not I can filter the results by a returned tag? Like for example get the results and then filter in a way that only yellow bikes are shown in the explorer view.

BHpaddock

In reply to littleguru

#Nov 4th, 2008 @ 8:01 AM

For those of you wondering if the ailing economy has taken its toll on Microsoft employees, you can now see that I apparently can't even afford a decent hair cut Tongue Out

What does specify whether or not I can filter the results by a returned tag?

In-memory filtering works for any property, but since in-memory filtering may often operate over a subset of the results on the server, the usefulness may be limited over large result sets.

littleguru
summer time! aperol spritz dreaming...

In reply to BHpaddock

#Nov 4th, 2008 @ 8:59 AM

Yeah. But it makes sense to filter results or even sort them after they have been returned by the server...

@haircut: at least you don't eat anything in the video... hehe

PaoloM
Hypermediocrity

In reply to BHpaddock

#Nov 4th, 2008 @ 8:59 AM

I wonder who's that gifted individual that painstakingly handcrafted that Channel 9 search connector... Smiley

khaledh

I was hoping to hear more about searching multiple sources at the same time, and merging of those results. Does this functionality exist? If not, is it planned?

Dovella
Go Microsoft !!!!!!!

Congratulation TEAM!!!!!!!