Hi. I'm Brandon. I'm a geek, and I work on Search technology for Windows at Microsoft. This is my blog.
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January 5th, 2006 at 11:17 am
Hi Brandon. I’m happy to see updates being made to WDS Enterprise.
I’ve posted a big problem with WDS at http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.DesktopSearchBugReports
It’s the one at the top entitled “Multiple WDS Indexers pointing at a network share causes file sharing violations”
I’m wondering if you guys know about this problem and have a possible work around for me (and others that have emailed me asking if I’ve heard a response back from MS about this problem.
Great blog by the way. I do like the layout (but didn’t comment on your ‘Do you like the layout’ entry
)
Thanks Brandon.
January 6th, 2006 at 1:03 pm
Hi Brandon.
I like this preview pane that shows outlook e-mails when clicking on a search result pertaining to Outlook. Does the WDS SDK provide for grabbing a reference to outlook objects returned from queries? I’ve seen it returns various fields but didn’t see a place where I can get ahold of the actual e-mail whose data is being returned. I’m guessing this just isn’t exposed to developer and I hope I’m wrong.
Michael Hughes
Redmond, WA
January 7th, 2006 at 4:44 pm
Michael - if you get the URL of the item (”Url” or “System.Url” column from the indexer) - you could strip out the EntryID and I believe you could use the Outlook object model to then access the item. Worth a shot anyway
April 15th, 2007 at 9:52 am
hi Brandon. i actually need some help. when i downloaded my windows live messenger…i encoutered a problem where when i went to the internet this pop up would come up saying that i need to restart my computer(which i have twice and nothing has happened) or re-install the #msntb_toolbar_full_name_#. but mine is #gen_windows_desktop_search# and i need to know how to solve this problem. i have no idea what to do. im wondering where i can find my recent tool for msn. where do i find #gen_windows_desktop_search#? this may not be in your area of helping but no one in my family knows what to do..im basically the one that fixes everything,but im not sure on what to do on this.please get back to me.