Official Windows 7 Federated Search Provider Implementer’s Guide

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Windows 7 Federated Search aka Open search is new feature which enables users to search remote data sources from within Windows Explorer and to interact with that remote data from within Windows Explorer.

Check out Windows 7 Search connectors for Wikipedia, Twitter, YouTube etc. Here is how to guide for creating Windows 7 Search connectors. Recently Microsoft has release official document of Windows 7 Federated Search Provider Implementer’s Guide.

Windows 7 Federated Search Provider Implementer’s Guide is docx (office 2007 Word File) file of size 1.2 MB with 31 pages created by Brandon Paddock. This document covers following topics of Windows 7 Federated Search.

1. What is federated search?

2. How it Works ? and Overview

3. Enabling Your Data Store, Accepting Search request.

4. Creating an OpenSearch Description File (.osdx)

5. Deploying Search Connectors

6. Best Practices

The official Windows 7 Search connector guide is very useful for those users who want to create search connectors of variouse webservice to increase productivy or want to provide Search connectors for their own services.

The document goes into every required detail with Pictorial represenation of Search connector implementation and the document ends with the lists of tips and best practices for working with Windows 7 and OpenSearch.

Download Official Windows 7 Federated Search Provider Implementer’s Guide.