lucene.net tutorial with lucene 2.9.2

step 1 - create a new console application

Then extract the Lucene.Net.dll from the Apache-Lucene.Net-2.9.2-incubating.bin.zip file into your lib folder.

You'll notice lots of other bits in  this zip file. Especially of interest to you later might be the stuff in the contrib folder. I might get to that in a later tutorial, but for now lets keep it simple.

step 2 - add a reference to the lucene.net.dll

Your references should look like this

step 3 - create a document

Ok the next step is to create a simple Document with the appropriate fields which you'll want to search on. In our case we're going to create 3 cars. a Ford Fiesta, a Ford Focus and a Vauxhall Astra.

01	using System;

02	using System.IO;

03	using Lucene.Net.Analysis;

04	using Lucene.Net.Analysis.Standard;

05	using Lucene.Net.Documents;

06	using Lucene.Net.Index;

07	using Lucene.Net.Store;

08	using Directory = Lucene.Net.Store.Directory;

09	using Version = Lucene.Net.Util.Version;

10

11	namespace LuceneNet.App

12

{

13	class Program

14

{

15	static void Main(string[] args)

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{

17	var fordFiesta = new Document();

18	fordFiesta.Add(new Field("Id", "1", Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.NOT_ANALYZED));

19	fordFiesta.Add(new Field("Make", "Ford", Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.ANALYZED));

20	fordFiesta.Add(new Field("Model", "Fiesta", Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.ANALYZED));

21

22	var fordFocus = new Document();

23	fordFocus.Add(new Field("Id", "2", Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.NOT_ANALYZED));

24	fordFocus.Add(new Field("Make", "Ford", Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.ANALYZED));

25	fordFocus.Add(new Field("Model", "Focus", Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.ANALYZED));

26

27	var vauxhallAstra = new Document();

28	vauxhallAstra.Add(new Field("Id", "3", Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.NOT_ANALYZED));

29	vauxhallAstra.Add(new Field("Make", "Vauxhall", Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.ANALYZED));

30	vauxhallAstra.Add(new Field("Model", "Astra", Field.Store.YES, Field.Index.ANALYZED));

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33

34	Directory directory = FSDirectory.Open(new DirectoryInfo(Environment.CurrentDirectory + "\\LuceneIndex"));

35	Analyzer analyzer = new StandardAnalyzer(Version.LUCENE_29);

36

37

38	var writer = new IndexWriter(directory, analyzer, true, IndexWriter.MaxFieldLength.LIMITED);

39	writer.AddDocument(fordFiesta);

40	writer.AddDocument(fordFocus);

41	writer.AddDocument(vauxhallAstra);

42

43	writer.Optimize();

44	writer.Close();

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}

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}

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}