Hello,
I have registered for a project in my next semester. The project is to develop a lan crawler which looks for and indexes all the .doc and .pdf files in the network. We have a p2p client called DC++. Ideally I would like to develop a search engine for that. But then, i do not know where to star, what libraries to use. Can I read .doc files using .Net? .Pdf files? If so what libraries should I use?

Thanks
Aditya

To create a LAN Crawler, FileSystemWatcher can be helpful

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.filesystemwatcher.aspx

To read a doc file your can use Microsoft Word Object Library COM (add using Add Reference). You can also read word file as shown in below link

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/getwordtext.aspx

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Gaurav Khanna

To create a LAN Crawler, FileSystemWatcher can be helpful

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.io.filesystemwatcher.aspx

To read a doc file your can use Microsoft Word Object Library COM (add using Add Reference). You can also read word file as shown in below link

http://www.codeproject.com/KB/cs/getwordtext.aspx

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Gaurav Khanna