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Andrew Boes
Andrew Boes

Reputation: 2043

Full text search winrt (windows runtime, windows store app, etc)

I use Lucene.Net to search text files in a WPF app and was thinking of porting it over to a Windows Store app. When I tried to add a Lucene.Net using the package manager I get the error below. Is there any other library that offers fully indexed text search I can use for WinRT?

install-package : Could not install package 'SharpZipLib 0.86.0'. 
You are trying to install this package into a project that targets     
'.NETCore,Version=v4.5', but the package does not contain any 
assembly references or content files that are compatible with that 
framework. For more information, contact the package author

*SharpZipLib is a dependency of Lucene.Net

Upvotes: 3

Views: 961

Answers (1)

Jim O'Neil
Jim O'Neil

Reputation: 23754

I'll caveat that I do not know if this will actually work, but it may hold promise.

SQLite has full text search (FTS), and SQLite is supported for Windows RT. This article would seem to indicate full text search isn't turned on by default so a recompile would be needed. This also presumes that whatever other dependencies that (FTS + recompilation) brings in are also supported on Windows RT.

Tim Heuer's blog is an excellent source on SQLite with Windows 8 apps, and he has this post on how to compile SQLite (before it was all packaged nicely as an extension), so it may be worth a shot to try it out.

Upvotes: 1

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