Resources for getting started with Lucene.Net?

Question

I'm building a simple site that allows users to post text content and I want to add it to a search index as it gets posted, so my site search is up to date. From what I can tell Lucene.NET is a good full text search framework. I've found very few examples of how to use it though. Can anyone post some good references for learning about Lucene?

Answer 1

Some links:

• Lucene tutorial
• Another tutorial
• Lucene FAQ
• Lucene in action The new edition should be out soon

The key point is that any Java material for Lucene is great for Lucene.net.

I should note though, that from your description of requirements, Solr might be a better fit.

HTH

Answer 2

If you want to use Lucene.NET on Windows Azure you can check out my blog post on how to get it working with the latest Azure SDK. A lot of people have problems getting this working, so I fixed the problem and wrote an article about it: http://leoncullens.nl/post/2012/11/18/Full-Text-Search-on-Azure-with-LuceneNET.aspx