Code Camp Complete
Well, the Code Camp in Minneapolis last Saturday went really well. I would have been happy with a larger turnout, but those who attended were interested and there was pretty good participation. My talk was about leveraging Windows Desktop Search in your applications. As discussed at the session, I'm posting my sample code and PowerPoint deck here. The code is only demo-quality! Feel free to ask any questions.
If you don't have PowerPoint 2007, remember that you can download the Microsoft Office File Converter Pack for earlier versions to open the pptx file. It's free!
Windows Desktop Search Presentation
Windows Desktop Search Sample Code
UPDATE: As pointed out in comments, the presentation link wasn't working (what I get for not testing!). Apparently PPTX is not a configured extension. It's now available as a ZIP file.
3 Comments
Michael Cessna said
Thanks for your hard work!...it is greatly appreciated. I was looking at ISearchProtocol (have the latest platform sdk)...but the search_iids.h file is missing. I've searched thourgh various SDKs...but cannot find it. Any ideas where this file can be found? Others were missing as well (SearchGUIDs.h...which I found how to define from a MS newsgroup).
Michael Cessna said
Just a note regarding the search-ms protocol, it's probably a'given, but it might be worth noting that ShellExeucte (using the 'open' verb) can be used to open user defined queries in the associated handler for the search-ms protocol. I'm in the process of creating an advanced search query interface for myself, and find that useful...in addition to getting back a recordset, etc. The only thing I wish is that it were possible to define the 'top' n records using a user defined query (only works for SQL as near as I can tell)...maybe in a future WDS version?
Tony said
Presentation link seems to not work...