Indexing Server, SQL Server, Windows SharePoint Services, SharePoint Portal Server, Exchange Server, and Windows Desktop Search provide full-text search capabilities. Each utilizes so-called IFilter components to index the content and then allows clients to search the index. Learn how IFilter components are utilized and how full-text searching works in each of those products.

Learn to programmatically administrate Indexing Server; for example, create a new Indexing catalog and then add folders to be indexed by this catalog.

Learn to link SQL Server with many different data sources. See how to link SQL Server to a directory like Active Directory Application Mode, a Microsoft Indexing Server catalog, a Microsoft Access database, and a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet.

Learn how to set up Microsoft's powerful indexing and searching engine, Microsoft Indexing Server, to search its index from within your Web or file-based applications.

Any time you develop a Web form or windows form using the Visual Studio .NET designer or use the view state architecture of ASP.NET, you rely on the help of a type converter.

Take a closer look at which IT functions are and are not outsourced. Also, take a closer look at how to manage an outsourcing relationship successfully.