indexing (searching) word and excel docs

[ivan74]

Hello everyone,
Im new to this forum and to be honest a bit new to .net as well.
I have small problem, Im about to write an intranet application which should
search our servers hard drive for .doc and .xls files no problem with that.
But how to index or search inside .doc or .xls?
They have a lot of files with same or very similar names in shared docs on server, it is really a complete mess.
Please help
Thaks
ivan

 

[PlausiblyDamp]

Doing this yourself will be a lot of work - partly in terms of performance, partly trying to understand the internal structures of the file types.
You may be better of installing the Indexing Service (part of the windows installtion on Win2K or better) and interacting with that from your application.

Clicky has a quick overview of what is involved. The basic idea is that the indexing service takes care of all the indexing of the various file types, and you connect to it as a OleDb datasource.

 

[michael_hk]

You may be better of installing the Indexing Service (part of the windows installtion on Win2K or better) and interacting with that from your application.

I have done before, not difficult to setup.

 

[ivan74]

Thank you,
it works just fine.