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Implementing Search in .NET Applications

By Xavier Morera
The ability to search, and most importantly find, is something most people take for granted and just expect it to work. In many cases it only becomes a big priority when search is broken or missing.
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Beginner
Updated
Jul 1, 2016
Duration
4h 28m
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Course Overview
Course Overview 2m
Searching Is Important… But Why? And How?
Searching is Important. But Why? And How? 4m Demo: Finding a Pluralsight Course 3m Search is Everywhere 1m Focus of this Course 2m Takeaway 0m
Understanding Search
Understanding Search 7m Functions of a Search Engine 5m Search Architecture 2m As Developers, How Do We Implement Search? 3m Simple Search Demo Using RESTSharp 10m Why SolrNet? 2m Simple Search Demo with SolrNet 7m Takeaway 1m
Configuring and Running a Solr Search Server
Configuring and Running a Solr Search Server 2m Prerequisites 3m Demo: Setting Up Your Environment and Starting Solr 6m About Schemas and Documents 5m Demo: Schemaless and Schema.xml 10m Scaling Up with SolrCloud 2m Demo: SolrCloud 4m Takeaway 1m
Getting Started with SolrNet – Your .NET Search Library
Getting Started with SolrNet 1m SolrNet Overview 1m Getting SolrNet 2m Building SolrNet 2m SolrNet Sample App 3m Connecting to Solr 1m Demo: Connecting to Solr Using CastleWindsor 8m Tip: Fiddler is Your Friend 1m Using Solr from C# 1m Demo: Using Solr from C# 10m Takeaway 1m
Making Your Content Searchable with Indexing
Making Your Content Searchable with Indexing 2m Demo: Indexing 0 to Many Documents 12m Demo: Indexing All Courses 9m Indexing Binary Files 7m Takeaway 1m
Querying: Help Your Users Find What They Need
Querying: Help Your Users Find What They Need 2m Understanding Solr Query Configuration 0m Solr Query Configuration Demo 10m Understanding Querying 5m Demo: Creating the Foundation - Search Library 16m Takeaway 1m
Improving Relevancy – It’s Harder Than You Think
Improving Relevancy: It's Harder Than You Think 1m Relevance 2m Precision vs. Recall 2m Improving Relevancy 2m Demo: Relevancy 4m Boosting with Demo 6m Boost Queries with Demo 4m Boost Functions with Demo 3m Stemming and Lemmatization with Demo 5m Synonyms with Demo 5m Spellcheck with Demo 6m Phonetic Search with Demo 4m Multilingual Search with Demo 4m Takeaway 1m
Getting Even Better: Faceting, Filtering, Highlighting, and More
Getting Even Better Results: Faceting, Filtering, Highlighting and More 1m Demo: Filtering 12m Demo: Facets and Stats 15m Demo: Highlighting 6m Demo: Extra Params 5m Takeaway 1m
Final Takeaway
Final Takeaway 5m
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Duration
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Get the information on how to make understanding and implementing search a breeze, saving you hundreds of hours of research. In this course, Implementing Search in .NET Applications, you'll be learning how to set up your own search engine and how to interact with your search engine from your code. Also, you'll learn how to index documents and then retrieve them by querying search engine. Finally, you'll learn how to improve relevancy and get better results by learning some additional techniques to improve the searching experience. By the end of this course, you will be able to implement a search API in C# with SolrNet.

About the author
Xavier Morera
About the author

Xavier is very passionate about teaching, helping others understand search and Big Data. He is also an entrepreneur, project manager, technical author, trainer, and holds a few certifications with Cloudera, Microsoft, and the Scrum Alliance, along with being a Microsoft MVP.

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