AppsPlus has been developing quality database solutions for over 14 years, and working with dtSearch for 5 years. Their clients for search and software development include industries ranging from the government, insurance, banking, medical analysis—even projects for Microsoft. Recently, AppsPlus was approached by a large federal government agency to come up with a simple yet elegant solution for searching through vast quantities of documents such as PDF, Word and Excel Document, and Access databases. The agency wanted the interface to be easy to use and understand for those who “are in the trenches, and don’t necessarily have a computer science degree” to be able to retrieve the information they want simply and quickly.

For this project, AppsPlus chose the dtSearch Text Retrieval Engine .NET API combined with the .NET Windows Forms and C#. Scott Barker, the developer of the system, had this to say: “Storing the indexes to use in XML configuration files made it is easy for the client to control (in terms of classification level, etc.) indexes available in response to a particular query. dtSearch’s .NET API made it easier then ever to develop the solution for this AppsPlus client.”

Mr. Barker, a former Microsoftie and current Microsoft MVP, is the author of a number of books published by SAMS on Access, including Database Programming with Visual Basic®.NET and ADO.NET: Tips Tutorials and Code. Scott’s two latest books by Wrox Publishing are Beginning InfoPath 2003 and Microsoft Visual C# Express Starter Kit.

For more information on AppsPlus and their custom database solutions, please call 206-369-7309 or email Mr. Barker at FSBarker@AppsPlus.com. You can also visit AppsPlus on the Web at www.AppsPlus.com.