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Community Links

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Blog Posts

Here are some great posts from the Lucene.Net community:

Full Text Search with Lucene.Net

A very detailed how-to guide for working with Lucene.Net.

“This is one of the best posts I have ever seen about Lucene.NET”

Introductory Lucene.Net Series

An excellent introductory series from Simone Chiaretta

• How to get started with Lucene.Net
• The Main Concepts
• Your First Application
• Dissecting Storage Documents and Fields
• Lucene - or how I stopped worrying and learned to love unstructured data
• How Subtext Lucene.Net index is structured

Other posts

• Lazily setting the SetMultiTermRewriteMethod
  • How-to guide on lazily setting the rewrite method of the query parser instead of eagerly since you may not know it is required until the query is built.
• Spatial Search with Lucene.Net and Examine
  • How-to guide on implementing geo spatial search with Lucene.Net in the context of using Examine to manage Lucene.Net.

Lucene.Net projects

Here are some great projects built with Lucene.Net:

Examine

Examine is a managed abstraction around Lucene.Net. It provides a fluent search API and handles all of the underlying Lucene.Net objects for you.

BoboBrowse.Net

Bobo-Browse is a powerful and extensible faceted search engine library built on top of Lucene.Net. It is a C# port of the original Bobo-Browse project written in Java by John Wang.

Azure Directory

This project allows you to create Lucene Indexes and use them in Azure.

This project implements a low level Lucene Directory object called AzureDirectory around Windows Azure BlobStorage.