Getting Started

Article
05/31/2018

Note

Indexing Service is no longer supported as of Windows XP and is unavailable for use as of Windows 8. Instead, use Windows Search for client side search and Microsoft Search Server Express for server side search.

To get started quickly, you can select the most appropriate category and follow the suggestions in the corresponding reference. There is considerable overlap of applicable information in these sections, and eventually you might want to look through more than one.

Power User or Administrator
File System-Oriented Programmer or Script Writer
Web Server-Oriented Programmer or Script Writer
Custom Filter-Component Programmer
Custom Language Resources Programmer

Power User or Administrator

The following sections describe how Indexing Service works and how to manage it as a power user or an administrator.

To Learn About	See
The structure and operation of Indexing Service	Architecture of Indexing Service
Standard Indexing Service filters available for indexing files	Filter DLLs
Controlling how Indexing Service filters files	Controlling Filtering
Managing Indexing Service with scripts	Programming with Scripts IISAdmin Sample
Managing Indexing Service with applications	Programming with Applications ChgState Sample VBAdmin Sample

File System-Oriented Programmer or Script Writer

The following sections describe how Indexing Service interacts with file systems.

To Learn About	See
An overview of programming for Indexing Service	Programming for Indexing Service
How to program Indexing Service for file systems	Using Indexing Service with File Systems
Writing simple query applications using helper functions or ADOs	Simple Sample VBQuery Sample VJQuery Sample
Writing efficient query applications that directly access the OLE DB Provider for Indexing Service	AdvQuery Sample

Web Server-Oriented Programmer or Script Writer

The following sections describe how Indexing Service interacts with web servers and scripts.

To Learn About	See
An overview of programming for Indexing Service.	Programming for Indexing Service
How to program Indexing Service for web servers	Using Indexing Service with Web Servers
Writing scripts to query Indexing Service using Dynamic HTML (DHTML)	DHtml Sample
Writing queries using an Indexing Service Query Language or the SQL language and an ASP page	IISSearch Sample

Custom Filter-Component Programmer

The following sections describe how standard Indexing Service filters work and how to build a custom one.

To Learn About	See
The information needed to write an Indexing Service filter for a specific file format	Using Custom Filters with Indexing Service
Standard Indexing Service filters available for indexing files	Filter DLLs
Writing a simple filter	Constructing Filters, SmpFilt Sample
Writing more complex filters that extract value-type properties	IFilter Sample HtmlProp Sample
Testing a filter implementation	Testing Filters

Custom Language Resources Programmer

The following table lists topics that contain information for programmers who want to develop custom language resource components such as word breakers and stemmers.

To Learn About	See
The information needed to write an language resource component for a particular language for Indexing Service	Extending Language Resources for Indexing Service
List of language resources available in Indexing Service	Language Resources
Creating a language resource components	Constructing Language Resource Components
Troubleshooting language resource components	Troubleshooting Language Resources