It seems to be a common requirement nowadays to have a search feature that can search almost anything you want. Can anyone give me samples or tips as to how to go about building a one stop search for an application?
For example: you have 3 tables customers, products, employees. The application has a master page that has a textbox at the right hand corner very similar to what you have on stackoverflow.
How do I have a search say for term say ‘Phoenix’ and have results like
Customers
Result 1 ...... Products
Result 1 ...... Employees
Result 1 ...... Any tips, tutorials and hints would be really appreciated. My environment is Win2k3,.net3.5,C#,ASP.net.
EDIT: Looking specifically at performance and scalability.
Thanks in advance!
Lucene.NET is an extremely fast full text search engine.
Sample usage:
See Source code of DotNetKicks starting from codebehind of search page