Edit

WSSQL

  • Article

The WSSQL code sample demonstrates how to communicate between Microsoft OLE DB and Windows Search through Structured Query Language (SQL).

This topic contains the following sections.

Requirements

Product Product Version
Windows Windows 7, 8.1, or 10
Windows SDK 7.0 or greater

Downloading the Sample

This sample is available in the following location.

Location Path URL
GitHub WSSQL sample

Note

For all versions of Windows, including Windows 7, it is recommended to download the samples directly from GitHub for the most up to date version.

Building the Sample

  1. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the WSSQL project directory.

  2. Double-click the icon for the WSSQL.sln file to open the project in Visual Studio.

    Note

    The sln file was created under an older version of Visual Studio, thus upgrading it will be required if you are running Visual Studio 2012 or newer. This will not impact the sample's behavior.

  3. From the Build menu, select Build Solution.

Running the Sample

  1. Navigate to the directory that contains the new executable, using the Command Prompt window or Windows Explorer.
  2. At the command prompt, enter WSSQL.exe, or from Windows Explorer, double-click the icon for WSSQL.exe.

Conceptual

Using Windows Search SQL Syntax

General Query Language Information

OLE DB Programming Overview

Other Samples

Search Code Samples