Creating Your Own Research Service for the Microsoft Office 2003 Research Library
Need to give users the ability to do quick searches of corporate data without adding yet another application to each user's desktop? The Research Library may be your answer. If your users have Office 2003, the user part is already there. All you have to do is add the research service.
by Jan Fransen
January 8, 2004
Figure 1: The Research Library is available from the task pane.
icrosoft Office 2003 Editions add a powerful new tool to the Office task pane: the Research Library.By default, the Research Library allows you to type in a word or phrase and search for the term using several built-in resources. The Research Library is also extensible: you can add your own research service simply by creating a Web service that follows schemas defined by Microsoft for research services.
In this article, you'll look at the nuts and bolts of the Research Library and see how you can use Microsoft Visual Studio .NET to create your own research service. If you are new to Microsoft Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET), you will become familiar with some of the coding techniques needed to create research services in VB.NET. You'll also learn how to use various formatting tags to change the appearance of the result and how to provide a custom search form for your research service.
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icrosoft Office 2003 Editions add a powerful new tool to the Office task pane: the Research Library.By default, the Research Library allows you to type in a word or phrase and search for the term using several built-in resources. The Research Library is also extensible: you can add your own research service simply by creating a Web service that follows schemas defined by Microsoft for research services.
