Developers rejoice - new API for Windows Desktop Search!

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Windows Desktop SearchEver since the MSN team released their first beta toolbar with Windows Desktop Search, developers have been asking how they can add its search functionality to their own programs. Well, the wait is over – the MSN team have quietly added documentation for their Windows Desktop Search API. Oh, and an SDK. And examples of SQL queries. And a command-line interface.

How did I find this out? Because I’m subscribed to the RSS feed of the Channel 9 wiki, and I saw this little diff go by. Yup, that’s the search team doing an update to their own pages on the wiki before they make a formal announcement. Besides, they’re probably too busy telling people about the new international versions of their toolbar :)

I’m looking forward to seeing how people use this in their own applications. Go nuts! And once you’ve built something cool, why not put a note about it on the wiki? After all, that’s why it’s there.

Update: Dare wants C# wrappers so that he can hook it in to RSS Bandit. So does Channel 9!

Category: Windows XP

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  • Anonymous
    July 06, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    July 06, 2005
    Thanks Sean - I'm trying to get your URL to appear correctly in Community Server. Bear with me while I edit your comment...
  • Anonymous
    July 06, 2005
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  • Anonymous
    July 08, 2005
    Jon, we updated the SDK today including .NET interop assemblies and some C# samples including a simple wrapper that returns results in a .NET DataSet object :)
  • Anonymous
    July 10, 2005
    Sweet :) Channel 9 has already been alerted - I'll let Dare know as well
  • Anonymous
    August 22, 2005
    Scheint so als hätte Google sein Desktop Search nochmal erweitert. Die
    Screenhots sehen echt Klasse...
  • Anonymous
    May 22, 2006
    Too bad the link to the SDK yields a broken ZIP file: http://addins.msn.com/support/WDSSDK.zip
  • Anonymous
    May 22, 2006
    Westin - the link works for me when I follow it from the documentation page(http://addins.msn.com/devguide.aspx#AppendixSDK). I get a 54.3 KB download.
  • Anonymous
    August 19, 2006
    Hello jonathan hows toby.hope you are well all the best mark,
  • Anonymous
    January 04, 2008
    PingBack from http://birthdays.247blogging.info/?p=761