topic Anyone had experience using ISearchEngine? in ArcObjects SDK Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/anyone-had-experience-using-isearchengine/m-p/187942#M4885 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I am trying to create an index of the personal and file geodatabases on my system.&nbsp; I can use FileInfo and DirectoryInfo to do so, but I'd rather do this using ArcObjects components if possible.&nbsp; I'd like to believe there's a way to tap into ArcCatalogs search index, but so far I haven't seen anything that provides a way to do this.&nbsp; As a fall back I have been working with the CatalogSearchEngineClass, ISearchEngine and FileSystemQuery but have run into many problems.&nbsp; First and foremost there does not seem to be an "INativeType" for geodatabases - leading me to think the whole assemblage was written back at version 8 and never updated?&nbsp; This belief is strengthened by the fact that the catalog search doesn't seem to know what a geodatabase is as it drop into gdb folders and then into featuredatasets as if they were just another subfolder!&nbsp; If you have </SPAN><SPAN style="font-style:italic;">any </SPAN><SPAN>experience searching using ArcObjects please reply!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 02 May 2014 16:13:15 GMT WilliamKirchhoff 2014-05-02T16:13:15Z Anyone had experience using ISearchEngine? https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/anyone-had-experience-using-isearchengine/m-p/187942#M4885 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I am trying to create an index of the personal and file geodatabases on my system.&nbsp; I can use FileInfo and DirectoryInfo to do so, but I'd rather do this using ArcObjects components if possible.&nbsp; I'd like to believe there's a way to tap into ArcCatalogs search index, but so far I haven't seen anything that provides a way to do this.&nbsp; As a fall back I have been working with the CatalogSearchEngineClass, ISearchEngine and FileSystemQuery but have run into many problems.&nbsp; First and foremost there does not seem to be an "INativeType" for geodatabases - leading me to think the whole assemblage was written back at version 8 and never updated?&nbsp; This belief is strengthened by the fact that the catalog search doesn't seem to know what a geodatabase is as it drop into gdb folders and then into featuredatasets as if they were just another subfolder!&nbsp; If you have </SPAN><SPAN style="font-style:italic;">any </SPAN><SPAN>experience searching using ArcObjects please reply!</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Fri, 02 May 2014 16:13:15 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcobjects-sdk-questions/anyone-had-experience-using-isearchengine/m-p/187942#M4885 WilliamKirchhoff 2014-05-02T16:13:15Z