SearchEngine Class

For a list of all members of this type, see SearchEngine Members.

Description

Represents the core searching component.

Thread Safety

This class is STA based and therefore safe for multithreaded access as long as the creating process continues to process its message loop.

Remarks

SearchEngineClass is the only createable class in the library all other classes are created directly or indirectly through this class.

Before starting a search the caller should make sure that both the SearchCriteria and SearchConfiguration properties are appropriately initialized.

Example

[Visual Basic]

 engineSearch = New SearchEngineClass

 engineSearch.SearchCriteria.FileName         = "*.txt"

 engineSearch.SearchCriteria.ContainingText   = "search"

 engineSearch.SearchCriteria.LookIn           = "c:\search folder"

 engineSearch.SearchCriteria.ContentsExprType = ExpressionType.RegExpClassic

 engineSearch.SearchConfiguration.SearchThreadCount = 1

 Dim listResult As SearchResultItemList = engineSearch.Start( False )