Federated Search Connector in Windows 7 with ASP.NET MVC

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Anith » Federated Search Provider in Windows 7 with ASP.NET MVC — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:31:40 GMT

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re: Federated Search Provider in Windows 7 with ASP.NET MVC

Jason — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:51:54 GMT

Excellent!!! Great article just as I thought :)

re: Federated Search Connector in Windows 7 with ASP.NET MVC

Mikael Söderström — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:31:22 GMT

Looks great! :-)

But what happends if you go to for example "/Contact/Details/lol"?

If you have something like this:

routes.MapRoute("ProfileDetails",

"{id}",

new { controller = "Contact", action = "Details" },

new { id = @"\d+" }

);

If you go to /12345 you will get directly to that customer, and I think you can change this:

public ActionResult Details(string id)

To this:

public ActionResult Details(int id)

Just my €0,02,

Mikael Söderström

re: Federated Search Connector in Windows 7 with ASP.NET MVC

JohanLindfors — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:41:29 GMT

Mikael Söderström: Great suggestion, but since the article is primarily on how to integrate the search feature with Windows 7, I'll leave it as is!

re: Federated Search Connector in Windows 7 with ASP.NET MVC

bpaddock — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 22:10:31 GMT

Great post!

Have you looked at the Federated Search Implementer's Guide that we posted a few weeks ago?

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=c709a596-a9e9-49e7-bcd4-319664929317&displaylang=en&tm

That should help you improve the search results a bit.

For example, I would suggest:

A) Switch to a two-line view layout instead of the 4 line you have, since the description property is very small.

B) Instead of using the "authors" property, which doesn't look very useful in this case, you should return properties like e-mail address, job title, department, etc.

The guide I linked to above should explain how to achieve both of those. If something is unclear please let me know how we can improve it :)

Brandon