Part 8: Incorporating Advanced Content in Visual C#.NET

Printer QR Code 2d barcode in Visual C#.NET Part 8: Incorporating Advanced Content

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214835 Search Returns Results From Wrong Web Insider Extra #7, Scripting Web Searches, which you can install from the companion CD, also contains information about configuring indexing service catalogs.

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If your Web site runs on Windows SharePoint Services, the Web Search component that the previous section described will be of little use. If you try adding a Web Search component to such a site, you ll receive an error message. If your site is a SharePoint Team Site, this may be no great loss. The home page and many other standard pages already contain search boxes, and visitors can just use those. If you want to add the same capability to a page you create yourself, proceed as follows.

1 Open the page that should provide a search capability. 2 Set the insertion point where you want the search form to appear. Don t choose a

4 In the Component Type list box at the left, choose Web Search. 5 In the Choose A Type Of Search list box at the right, choose Full-Text Search. 6 Click Finish.

This creates a simple search form like the one Figure 28-6 shows inside the centered box. The page banner, the Enter Search Term prompt, and the centered box, were all present before inserting the Full-Text Search form.

Figure 28-6. Use the full-text search component to create a search form that works on a Windows SharePoint Services site.

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Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003 Inside Out The form itself is neither a FrontPage component nor a Web Part. It s an ordinary HTML form that submits the contents of the text box to a SharePoint search program. The arrow button is a standard HTML picture button. In terms of function, the full-text search form works exactly like any other search form you find on a Windows SharePoint Services site.

The Search The Web With MSN component displays an HTML form that your visitors can use to search the World Wide Web for a given string. A page that contains this component appears in Figure 28-7.

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Figure 28-7. The Search The Web With MSN component in the center of this Web page submits search terms to the public MSN search engine. The border around the search form is actually a one-cell table added later.

Entering search terms and clicking the Search button submits a request to the MSN search engine, at http://search.msn.com. Figure 28-8 shows some typical results. Here s the procedure for adding this component to a page in your Web site:

1 Set the insertion point where you want the component to appear. 2 Choose Web Component from the Insert menu. This displays the Insert Web

Unlike most other Web components, Search The Web With MSN doesn t have a persistent identity or a custom dialog box for configuration. Instead, the result of inserting this compo@ nent is some ordinary HTML that appears in your Web page. Right-clicking this area doesn t offer a Search The Web With MSN Properties choice, for example. Instead, it offers a Form Properties choice that directly configures the properties of the HTML form.

Two details of the MSN Search form are critical. As long as you preserve these details, you can modify the MSN Search form as much as you like:

Submitting the form sends a request to the location http://search.msn.com/results.asp,

as shown in the Action box of the Options For Custom Form Handler dialog box in Figure 28-9. This is the location of the MSN search engine.

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Figure 28-9. The Search The Web With MSN component doesn t have its own Properties dialog box. To configure it, just modify its HTML form properties. If you want, click Options to display the Options For Custom Form Handler dialog box.

One drawback of using this component is that it sends visitors away from your Web site. One minute a visitor is happily browsing your Web site; the next minute, the visitor discovers the MSN Search form; and the minute after that, your visitor is browsing some other site. One way of reducing this effect is to make the MSN search results appear in a new window instead of yours. Here s the procedure: