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            IndexDeletionPolicy}, for the index in <span id="cbc_17" x-lang="CSharp" codeLanguage="CSharp"><div class="highlight-title"><span class="highlight-copycode" onkeypress="javascript:CopyColorizedCodeCheckKey(this.parentNode, event);" tabindex="0" onmouseover="CopyCodeChangeIcon(this)" onmouseout="CopyCodeChangeIcon(this)" onclick="javascript:CopyColorizedCode(this.parentNode);"><img style="margin-right: 5px;" src="../icons/CopyCode.gif" />Copy</span>C#</div><div class="code"><pre xml:space="preserve">d</pre></div></span>,
            first creating it if it does not already exist.  Text
            will be analyzed with <span id="cbc_18" x-lang="CSharp" codeLanguage="CSharp"><div class="highlight-title"><span class="highlight-copycode" onkeypress="javascript:CopyColorizedCodeCheckKey(this.parentNode, event);" tabindex="0" onmouseover="CopyCodeChangeIcon(this)" onmouseout="CopyCodeChangeIcon(this)" onclick="javascript:CopyColorizedCode(this.parentNode);"><img style="margin-right: 5px;" src="../icons/CopyCode.gif" />Copy</span>C#</div><div class="code"><pre xml:space="preserve">a</pre></div></span>.
            
            </div><div class="summary">  has this index open (<span id="cbc_19" x-lang="CSharp" codeLanguage="CSharp"><div class="highlight-title"><span class="highlight-copycode" onkeypress="javascript:CopyColorizedCodeCheckKey(this.parentNode, event);" tabindex="0" onmouseover="CopyCodeChangeIcon(this)" onmouseout="CopyCodeChangeIcon(this)" onclick="javascript:CopyColorizedCode(this.parentNode);"><img style="margin-right: 5px;" src="../icons/CopyCode.gif" />Copy</span>C#</div><div class="code"><pre xml:space="preserve">write.<span class="highlight-keyword">lock</span></pre></div></span> could not
            be obtained)
            </div><div class="summary">  read/written to or if there is any other low-level
            IO error
            </div><p /><b>Namespace:</b> <a href="4d52bcdb-050f-b66e-6d74-d7169ebc88b0.htm">Lucene.Net.Index</a><br /><b>Assembly:</b> <span sdata="assembly">Lucene.Net</span> (in Lucene.Net.dll) Version: 2.9.4.1<h1 class="heading"><span onclick="ExpandCollapse(syntaxToggle)" style="cursor:default;" onkeypress="ExpandCollapse_CheckKey(syntaxToggle, event)" tabindex="0"><img id="syntaxToggle" class="toggle" name="toggleSwitch" src="../icons/collapse_all.gif" />Syntax</span></h1><div id="syntaxSection" class="section" name="collapseableSection" style=""><div id="syntaxCodeBlocks" class="code"><span codeLanguage="CSharp"><table><tr><th>C#</th></tr><tr><td><pre xml:space="preserve">[<a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fwz0y5c2" target="_blank">ObsoleteAttribute</a>("This constructor will be removed in the 3.0 release. Use IndexWriter(Directory,Analyzer,IndexDeletionPolicy,MaxFieldLength) instead, and call Commit() when needed.")]
<span class="keyword">public</span> <span class="identifier">IndexWriter</span>(
	<a href="efbb8875-61b0-2961-de21-ee404a5f33c9.htm">Directory</a> <span class="parameter">d</span>,
	<a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/a28wyd50" target="_blank">bool</a> <span class="parameter">autoCommit</span>,
	<a href="bcab6223-07e7-2459-0325-448aa0fa926f.htm">Analyzer</a> <span class="parameter">a</span>,
	<a href="f6146275-99fe-40a0-6f06-ddeedc61102d.htm">IndexDeletionPolicy</a> <span class="parameter">deletionPolicy</span>
)</pre></td></tr></table></span><span codeLanguage="VisualBasicDeclaration"><table><tr><th>Visual Basic</th></tr><tr><td><pre xml:space="preserve">&lt;<a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fwz0y5c2" target="_blank">ObsoleteAttribute</a>("This constructor will be removed in the 3.0 release. Use IndexWriter(Directory,Analyzer,IndexDeletionPolicy,MaxFieldLength) instead, and call Commit() when needed.")&gt; _
<span class="keyword">Public</span> <span class="keyword">Sub</span> <span class="identifier">New</span> ( _
	<span class="parameter">d</span> <span class="keyword">As</span> <a href="efbb8875-61b0-2961-de21-ee404a5f33c9.htm">Directory</a>, _
	<span class="parameter">autoCommit</span> <span class="keyword">As</span> <a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/a28wyd50" target="_blank">Boolean</a>, _
	<span class="parameter">a</span> <span class="keyword">As</span> <a href="bcab6223-07e7-2459-0325-448aa0fa926f.htm">Analyzer</a>, _
	<span class="parameter">deletionPolicy</span> <span class="keyword">As</span> <a href="f6146275-99fe-40a0-6f06-ddeedc61102d.htm">IndexDeletionPolicy</a> _
)</pre></td></tr></table></span><span codeLanguage="ManagedCPlusPlus"><table><tr><th>Visual C++</th></tr><tr><td><pre xml:space="preserve">[<a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/fwz0y5c2" target="_blank">ObsoleteAttribute</a>(L"This constructor will be removed in the 3.0 release. Use IndexWriter(Directory,Analyzer,IndexDeletionPolicy,MaxFieldLength) instead, and call Commit() when needed.")]
<span class="keyword">public</span>:
<span class="identifier">IndexWriter</span>(
	<a href="efbb8875-61b0-2961-de21-ee404a5f33c9.htm">Directory</a>^ <span class="parameter">d</span>, 
	<a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/a28wyd50" target="_blank">bool</a> <span class="parameter">autoCommit</span>, 
	<a href="bcab6223-07e7-2459-0325-448aa0fa926f.htm">Analyzer</a>^ <span class="parameter">a</span>, 
	<a href="f6146275-99fe-40a0-6f06-ddeedc61102d.htm">IndexDeletionPolicy</a>^ <span class="parameter">deletionPolicy</span>
)</pre></td></tr></table></span></div><div id="parameters"><h4 class="subHeading">Parameters</h4><dl paramName="d"><dt><span class="parameter">d</span></dt><dd>Type: <a href="efbb8875-61b0-2961-de21-ee404a5f33c9.htm">Lucene.Net.Store<span class="languageSpecificText"><span class="cs">.</span><span class="vb">.</span><span class="cpp">::</span><span class="nu">.</span><span class="fs">.</span></span>Directory</a><br />the index directory
            </dd></dl><dl paramName="autoCommit"><dt><span class="parameter">autoCommit</span></dt><dd>Type: <a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/a28wyd50" target="_blank">System<span class="languageSpecificText"><span class="cs">.</span><span class="vb">.</span><span class="cpp">::</span><span class="nu">.</span><span class="fs">.</span></span>Boolean</a><br />see <a href="#autoCommit">above</a></dd></dl><dl paramName="a"><dt><span class="parameter">a</span></dt><dd>Type: <a href="bcab6223-07e7-2459-0325-448aa0fa926f.htm">Lucene.Net.Analysis<span class="languageSpecificText"><span class="cs">.</span><span class="vb">.</span><span class="cpp">::</span><span class="nu">.</span><span class="fs">.</span></span>Analyzer</a><br />the analyzer to use
            </dd></dl><dl paramName="deletionPolicy"><dt><span class="parameter">deletionPolicy</span></dt><dd>Type: <a href="f6146275-99fe-40a0-6f06-ddeedc61102d.htm">Lucene.Net.Index<span class="languageSpecificText"><span class="cs">.</span><span class="vb">.</span><span class="cpp">::</span><span class="nu">.</span><span class="fs">.</span></span>IndexDeletionPolicy</a><br />see <a href="#deletionPolicy">above</a></dd></dl></div></div><h1 class="heading"><span onclick="ExpandCollapse(seeAlsoToggle)" style="cursor:default;" onkeypress="ExpandCollapse_CheckKey(seeAlsoToggle, event)" tabindex="0"><img id="seeAlsoToggle" class="toggle" name="toggleSwitch" src="../icons/collapse_all.gif" />See Also</span></h1><div id="seeAlsoSection" class="section" name="collapseableSection" style=""><div class="seeAlsoStyle"><a href="cfb56f63-f6d1-efdf-e1eb-54ef6f901cd1.htm">IndexWriter Class</a></div><div class="seeAlsoStyle"><a href="f4c34a5e-9130-35c3-7870-1a459eedd04d.htm">IndexWriter Overload</a></div><div class="seeAlsoStyle"><a href="4d52bcdb-050f-b66e-6d74-d7169ebc88b0.htm">Lucene.Net.Index Namespace</a></div></div></div><div id="footer"><div class="footerLine"><img width="100%" height="3px" src="../icons/footer.gif" alt="Footer image" title="Footer image" /></div><A NAME="feedback"></A><span id="fb" class="feedbackcss"></span></div></div></body></html>