Recently, I was building an open search provider for a client's web site. By building a search provider for your website, you give the ability to the users to use Internet Explorer's search box to quickly search your web site for the desired content. A search provider is also installed as an accelerator, thus providing even more search power and ease of use to the end user.
MSDN has a very comprehensive article on building search providers for Internet Explorer 8. I wanted to include support for visual search suggestions, which is a fairly easy proccess, one has to create a page or handler that returns an XML (or...
Recently, one of our clients wanted to host a web site on Windows Azure. Our solution would consist of the actual web site and our content management tool to allow for content changes in the web site, so we would have two different web applications hosted on Azure.
One spec was that the web site admin should be able to upload photos and images that would show up in the site. The problem was that Azure doesn't allow for file I/O operations, so you can't upload a file and then save it on the disk.
When thinking of how we could implement this...