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Table 34-1 Description of Classes in the Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.WebControls
Namespace (continued)
Class Name Description
SearchResults This class implements the SharePoint Portal Server Search
Results Web Part. If you want to develop a more advanced
search results part, this class would be the starting point.
TextEditor This class implements the rich text editor control used
throughout SharePoint sites.
The SharePoint Portal Server object model provides several other namespaces.
These namespaces are much less frequently used than the previously discussed
namespaces. A short discussion of these namespaces will be provided in this section.
For more information on these Namespaces, please refer to the “Reference” section
of the SharePoint Products and Technologies SDK.
■ Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.Admin.Search. This namespace provides functions
for interacting with the search catalogs. You can manage the catalogs by
adding or removing content sources, forcing propagation of the catalogs, and
forcing a type of crawl (Full, Incremental, and so on) on a specific search catalog.
This namespace, however, does not let you work with individual content sources,
only full search catalogs, so you cannot crawl a particular content source directly
using the functions, only a particular catalog, such as Portal_Content.
■ Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.Search. The Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.Search
namespace provides only one single class—QueryProvider. With this class, you
can call the search service. Although this class does provide the search ability, it
is better to use the Search Web service. The Search Web service is more robust
and easier to use, plus the code that calls the QueryProvider class can only be
run on the local server running SharePoint Portal Server.
■ Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.Search.ObjectModel. This namespace provides
classes and functions for manipulating search scopes. With the namespace,
you can add, remove, move, update, and list the search scopes on a particular
portal site.
■ Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.Search.WebQueryService. This namespace
implements the Search Web service, the SPSQueryService class. Using the Search
Web service explicitly instead of going through this class is generally easier and
allows your code to be run from remote machines.
■ Microsoft.SharePoint.Portal.SingleSignOn. This namespace contains
classes and functions required for accessing the Single Sign-On service provided
with SharePoint Portal Server. You can add different applications, set up
the credentials systems, and request credentials from this namespace.