Search Function

[myokeeh]

What's a good option for adding or implementing search?

I have something implemented that's fairly rudimentary, but would like to add ability to use + (must contain) or - (must not contain) or enclose text with quotes for better results.

[adrianhall]

Client or server? Using LINQ (online) or offline?

There are so many questions here - perhaps a better description of the problem and a potential snippet of code that you would want to write to implement it would be good?

[myokeeh]

On the client side offline. Let's say app has: TrinketKitItems and TrinketSubItems.

I want to be able to put search terms in a search box brown +"concentric gripper" -pneumatic" where the intent is to find TrinketKitItems that have TrinketSubItems that must contain "concentric gripper" and must not contain "pneumatic" and optionally "brown" in the description (or any property/column).

The simple search implementation I have already uses LINQ, but not "fully featured" as one would expect nowadays with the quotes, +, - modifiers(?).

Is there a search solution/indexer I can integrate easily that works well with Datasync?