i hope i'm missing something.
As far as i can gather: there is no SDK/API/Docs yet for WDS3. This means that it's impossible to develop any filters or protocol handlers (or to even know if WDS3 supports custom filters or protocol handlers).
So without the ability to develop, what is the "Windows Desktop Search Development" forum for i see people asking questions - like they are developing stuff. i want to develop stuff!
How are you developing stuff
What's this forum for when there's no SDK?
Vladox
I feel your frustration -- this is extremely unprofessional (and lame).
This product seems all but half-baked as not even these MS guys can tell you where to get non-VISTA WDS3.0 SDK from. The link provided in the response above sends to a lame MSDN set of useless pages, which, surprise-surprise, references, and I quote,
chakravarthy_b
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa965362.aspx
There's a decent number of code samples, and proper docs. Let us know which parts you see lacking enough depth, and we'll track it for the next release.
Thanks for your feedback
Gerald
Microsoft
yusufaz
What's the new ETA for the SDK
Thanks.
Aaron
F. Gsell
Download the sdk here
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=645300ae-5e7a-4ce7-95f0-49793f8f76e8&displaylang=en
Darkphibre
The answer is "nothing", because like you we are waiting for the complete v3 SDK and have exactly the same questions you have asked.
We wasted over a week trying to work everything out based on the 2.6 interface and the online docs, but it was pointless.
And if the SDK does not appear RSN it's "Hello" to dtSearch.....
JimTan
The current SDK is located on MSN here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa965362.aspx
We are currently working on enhancing the SDK content along with samples right now. The updated content is slated to be release in the next few weeks.
You download a Vista search sample project (indexes the registry) from codeplex, a scaled down version will be also included in the SDK: http://www.codeplex.com/RegNamespace
Kobingo
i hoped that download contained SDK documentation, but it only contains code samples.
Is there any option to update my installed "Windows SDK" to get the new documentation i know the old "Platform SDK" had a web-update option. That doesn't seem to exist for "Windows SDK"
BSohante
Yes, i wrote all my stuff using the "Windows Search SDK."
When it didn't work, i began to understand that everything i done was wasted, and the current Windows Search is not documented.
MerryPoppins
i trust the currently missing interfaces will find their way in. Also some documentation on everything else that's missing:
- what the interfaces are for
- how they are used
- when they are used
- who uses them
- who implements them
- can we filter our own files
- can we filter our own data stores
- can we filter our own data stores using a custom filter
- can we fitler our own data stores using a standard filter
- are my objects supposed to be COM objects "
- how do i register my stuff with WDS
- how will my objects be discovered
- when will my objects be instantiated
- under what security context will my objects be loaded
- what relationship (if any) is there to my objects and the windows shell
The current SDK has no mention of
- IFilter (i assume IFilters are depricated, and there's a new interface that WDS uses to extract content from a file/store).
- IShellView (i assume we don't have to implement it to create a protocol handler used by WDS)
- IPersistFolder (i assume WDS has severed any connection to the "shell" concept of a protocol handler)
- etc
Which brings me back to my original concern. What are people developing