Windows Desktop Search APIs
MSN added a new Desktop Search APIs in beta to do new and cool things with. There is already many partner's addins available .
Using the Add-ins dev guide, you can now write an application that takes the results from Desktop Search and combines it with information from other sources such as online content. This allows you to create new mash-ups of functionality that we haven’t even though of yet. Ooohh, this is very “web 2.0”… ;-) One new API set can send queries into the Desktop Search product and get back a list of results to display in your own applications and tools. The same queries that are passed into the Deskbar or Toolbar can be sent in programmatically into the Desktop Search index now. The ExecuteQuery method is used for this purpose. A sample has been created with C# to observe the new APIs in action.
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