Microsoft Indexing Server is a powerful indexing and search engine for your web or file search. This article explains how to set up Indexing Server and how to search its index from within your application.

Any time you developed a web form or Windows form using the Visual Studio .NET designer or used the view state architecture of ASP.NET you have relied on the help of a type converter. As the name already states, type converters are used to convert from one type to another.

Describes how you can link SQL Server with many different data sources like a directory as Active Directory Application Mode, a Microsoft Indexing Server catalog, a Microsoft Access database and a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet. Also explains how to query linked servers using the OPENQUERY command.

Describes in detail how you can programmatically administrate Indexing Server, for example create a new Indexing catalog and then add folders to be indexed by this catalog.

Indexing Server, SQL Server, Windows SharePoint Services, SharePoint Portal Server, Exchange Server and Windows Desktop Search provide full-text search capabilities. Each utilizes the so called IFilter components to index the content and then allows clients to search the index.