Microsoft Search Server 2008: binding results to ASP.NET controls and/or data structures

[Ken Fine]

I have set up Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express.

I want to know how I can query against it and return results in a form that
can be bound to ASP.NET controls like ListViews. If there's simply a way to
return results as an ArrayList or other data structure I can figure out the
rest of this problem myself.

What I don't want:
* I don't want to deal with XSLT
* I don't want to work with prebuilt controls from SharePoint or somesuch. I
want to create fairly customized presentations and behaviors.

I have looked at this:
http://www.codeplex.com/sctsc

It does not seem to be what I want -- at least in the examples it is relying
on XSLT, and the control exposes XSLT-related properties. I just want the
data that's being returned from Search Server to be accessible in some
standard structured form.

Any other examples or articles I should be looking at?

Thanks,
-KF

 

[Steven Cheng [MSFT]]

Hi KF,

Based on my research, the search server's search is still depend on the
sharepoint search.asmx webservice. Therefore, this is the main entry point
of client programmability. I've had a look at the search control you
refered, yes, it seems it directly query the webservice and process the
result as plain xml so that you can apply XSLT to produce the output html.

I've also found the following reference, it call the webservice via
standard .net webservice proxy and return the result as a dataset. The
dataset is able to be bound to ASP.NET DataSource control or directly to
databound controls.

#Creating Search Queries Programmatically by Using the Search Web Service
in SharePoint Server 2007
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb625950.aspx

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead


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From: "Ken Fine" <[email protected]>
Subject: Microsoft Search Server 2008: binding results to ASP.NET controls and/or data structures
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 13:28:47 -0700

I have set up Microsoft Search Server 2008 Express.

I want to know how I can query against it and return results in a form that
can be bound to ASP.NET controls like ListViews. If there's simply a way to
return results as an ArrayList or other data structure I can figure out the
rest of this problem myself.

What I don't want:
* I don't want to deal with XSLT
* I don't want to work with prebuilt controls from SharePoint or somesuch.

I