Question

I would like to create a quicksearch in my application.

Let’s say I have a class:

public class Venue
{
    public virtual string LongName { get; set; }
    public virtual string ShortName { get; set; }
    public virtual string Market { get; set; }
    public virtual int ClientEmail { get; set; }
}

and I would like to index a set of this (and other) objects.

The idea it that user will type some data into textbox, and “in-memory index” will accept that string, and return all objects that contain searched value in one or more properties.

Is there a out of the box solution in .NET for such a thing? Or library, or whatever?

Thanks

Answer 1

Check Lucene.Net or even RavenDB document database if you want to store the data in relatively cool way – which is by the way based on Lucene.Net. RavenDB implements LINQ driver so you can use LINQ queries accross your collections, and fetch them dynamically. You have indexing support so you can achieve really high performance for your computations.