SharePoint Wild Card Search
July 30, 2008
You may know Sridhar. He is “an escalation resource with the SharePoint/CMS Developer support team, Microsoft.” His Web log is Sridhar’s SharePoint Developer Blog. You can find it here. The tag line for the Web log is pretty darned interesting. Sridhar writes, “Creativity is out of the box. Then why customize?” Today Sridhar tackles the notion of wild card search. Wild card search to me means using a character like * or ? to represent any character. Well, wild card search is not provided in SharePoint. To implement wild card search, you use Sridhar’s sample code and he adds:
try using the sample web part (oh yep, you need to have the latest WSS 3.0 Tools: Visual Studio 2005 Extensions, Version 1.1 installed to be able to open the enclosed VS solution) and let me know how it is.
The addled goose would deliver a happy quack to Sridhar, but there’s one minor problem. Sridhar does not include his sample code or a link to the sample code in his Web log post here. I assume this is an oversight which will be rectified quickly. Unfortunately, SharePoint needs quite a bit of customization because “out of the box” installations are not too useful. I am supportive of Microsoft’s blogging efforts, but the omission of the code to implement wild card search is becoming more and more characteristic of the company’s attention to detail.
Stephen Arnold, July 30, 2008
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