Instant Searching and Filtering in .Net - Part 4

This is the final part of my series on instant searching and filtering using C#. The only further issue that I wanted to cover was efficiently using a ListView when the items  will change so often.
ListViews already have the concept of a virtual mode, where the consumer of the class must supply the items that [...]

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Instant Searching and Filtering in .Net - Part 3

This is part three of my series on fast searching and filtering of text using C#.
The previous article developed an indexing method using a hash table. This article develops a method using a trie structure. If you don’t know tries, I highly encourage to go read about them before continuing.
This filtering method is much more [...]

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Instant Searching and Filtering in .Net - Part 2

This is part two of my series on fast searching/filtering of text using C#.
In the previous article, we developed the filtering interface, built up a testing framework and implemented a naive indexer. For many purposes, that indexer performs more than adequately. Still, there are other possible implementations that might work better (or not…let’s wait and [...]

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Instant Searching and Filtering in .Net - Part 1

Even though I recently wrote about just using naive algorithms when they’re sufficient, it helps to know about other options and their characteristics. With that mind, I’m beginning a little series (4 parts planned–I’ll update this list as I go along) in C# documenting how I developed a few different approaches to doing fast (instant) [...]

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Windows Live Search Toolbar — not quite there yet

I forced myself to uninstall the Google toolbar and exclusively try out the new Windows Live Toolbar. I think I’m going to uninstall it today. First of all, I like a lot of things about it:

Customizable buttons
Lots of great features
Search history with automatic drop down list that shows past/related searches
Desktop search works as well as [...]

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Windows Media Player 11 continued…

Some things I really like about the new media player:

It is a LOT faster. I have at least 15,000 songs I’ve ripped from my large CD collection. WMP 10 took far too long enumerating albums and songs.
The instant search may become my primary way of finding specific music to listen to.
I like the tile view [...]

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