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Community Links


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

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.