As always, you can find the LIFTI project at its CodePlex home: http://lifti.codeplex.com. Until now, the way in which you can query against LIFTI has been pretty basic. If you searched for “apple orange”, you would only get items back that had words starting with both apple and orange in their associated …

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Working with other people is hard. Working with new SDK documentation is even harder, especially when it’s wrong. If you’re following the Working with OAuth WRAP Windows Live SDK documentation and you get to the Acquiring an Access Token sample you’ll probably encounter a 401 unauthorized error when …

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Back in the original post where I first introduced LIFTI I wrote: LIFTI will not...: Handle word derivatives, e.g. if “Cats” is searched for, objects containing just the word “Cat” would not be returned. This was always something that I wanted to handle, but felt that it was better to have a …

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UPDATE 9 April 2014: The source is also available on GitHub** ** T4 (the Text Template Transformation Toolkit) is slowly becoming more widely known as a way to generate code to be compiled and used alongside hand-written code. Frameworks such as the Entity Framework V4 have adopted it for its code generation, allowing …

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This post will show how LIFTI can be adapted to index and search upon Pascal-cased words, similar to Visual Studio 2010’s Navigate To window. (Or Resharper’s Go to symbol command, if you’re so inclined) The code for this sample can be found in the Lifti solution: …

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If you’ve created your own authentication service for a Silverlight RIA application, you might encounter the following scenarios: 1) If you get the following errors: GetUser should have returned a single user Logout should have returned a single, anonymous user Then the chances are your implementation of …

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Introduction SQL Server provides a really powerful full text index feature whereby you can run queries along the lines of “find me comments that contain the words ‘success’ and ‘happy’". That’s all well and good when you are using SQL Server to retrieve data, but what do you do …

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Note that this post could be considered the second part in my previously incredibly short series of 1 posts: Good Uses for SQL Server 2005 Common Table Expressions - previous entries being: Part 1 - Determining the top and bottom n pieces of information in a set Part 0 - Introduction -- Ok, so the title of the post …

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It took me far too long to work this out; I needed to know whether or not it was safe to try and set the ManagedPipelineMode property on an AppPool, and I figured the best way to do it would be to check the current IIS version and if it was 7.0 or above. The code to get the current version is straightforward, once you …

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Update 12/10/2012 - Since the LSS website is no longer active, I’ve moved the download to this site. I’ve just uploaded a little utility onto our website herethe downloads section on this site that should help those developers that write their own MSBuild tasks. One of the nice features that’s a …

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