Hi Tony and all, First few comments. http://www.dotlucene.net/ is not the official Lucene.Net site. Please use http://incubator.apache.org/lucene.net/
>From the Lucene.Net, if you follow the download link you will see a README.txt which will explain why you can't find the files you are looking for. Hopefully, by end of next week, those files will come back as an official release. If you can't wait, you can get the source code off SVN (again, see the official site) and build the DLL yourself. Once you have the DLL, you can use it with VS.NET just like any other DLL. Many folks have done this without any problem. As for a demo on how to index and search using Lucene.Net, in addition to what other folks already pointed out, you should also look in the source code -- there is a "Demo" folder which has two working examples in C#. Given VB.NET being somewhat similar to C#, you should be able to convert the C# demo to VB.NET -- Google the net, maybe someone already posted such an example in VB.NET. Regards, -- George Aroush -----Original Message----- From: tony njedeh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 6:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: New to Apache Lucene.Net 2.0.0 Hi Ed, I downloaded all the zip file downloads on that page and unzipped and searched every single folder for the dll files and I was unable to find it. I dont know what if, the dll files were recently taken from the zip or something. Is it possible to forward the dll files to me. Tony Ed Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tony, Try downloading the files from http://www.dotlucene.net/download/ simply download the ZIP file and look for the dll I the bin directory. Add as a reference in your VS.net project. Then take a look at the 5 tutorials here http://www.dotlucene.net/tutorial/ , they are in c# but you can use an online converter like this one: http://www.developerfusion.co.uk/utilities/convertcsharptovb.aspx I had the same learning curve as you and although I only dabbled with Lucene I got an indexer and searching system working quite quickly. Hope that helps Ed -----Original Message----- From: tony njedeh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 March 2007 20:05 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: New to Apache Lucene.Net 2.0.0 Regarding the lucene.net.dll, am I to compile my files and get the .dll files or its provided on the website. And the first step, I would like to make is, indexing and building a test document I can search with. I am sorry for my elementary questions, I am very new to the lucene environment. Thank you Anthony Max Metral wrote: Sorry, my respose was leading but not informative. I would think you'd be better off including the .Net dll and leaving it in its original state. You should not need Java at all, unless you want to use the Lucene Index Explorer for debugging (which is nice). What is the next step you're trying to do? Index something? Build a test document? -----Original Message----- From: tony njedeh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 2:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: New to Apache Lucene.Net 2.0.0 The website I work on, is set up in VB and not C# Max Metral wrote: Why did you convert them? -----Original Message----- From: tony njedeh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 2:10 PM To: [email protected] Subject: New to Apache Lucene.Net 2.0.0 Hi everyone, I am new to lucene and I wanted to use the search engine in my VB.net(web application). I have converted the C# files I downloaded from the lucene.net 1.9.0.7 in the url http://www.dotlucene.net/ to VB files. I also downloaded Java 5. I was hoping, if you guys could guide me through the next steps to make, because I am seriously out of my element here. Thank you
