Recently I’ve begun investigating the possibility of writing a tool to extend the MSN Desktop Search program. I believe I’ve determined that what I want to do is possible. I’ll get to coding up a real test version tonight.
Here are my goals:
1) To have a simple interface for building searches that use the Advanced Search Syntax features of MSN DS.
2) To be able to create shortcuts to those search queries (basically Search Folders) in a simple way.
Really it doesn’t sound that difficult. I should be able to throw something useable together tonight, unless I run into trouble somewhere. After that, I’ll look into figuring out what other kinds of features I might want to include – and try to give it a clean and functional UI.
I’ll post again later with an update and hopefully something to show you.