FAST is a search engine used for enterprise search. In FAST, a View specifies how content is structured. It has collections. A collection has documents. Each document has a specific structure, specified by fields.

Apart from specifying the content, a View has certain parameters to fine-tune the search. For example, parameters like lemmatisation and spell-check control the results returned by a search.…

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Microsoft FAST Search for SharePoint provides enterprise search and information retrieval capabilities. FAST provides a API to query documents indexed in the server. The API is available in a proprietary assembly, Esp-SearchApi.

We will write a simple program to perform a search. We use the following namespaces.

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Collections.Specialized;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using Com.FastSearch.Esp.Search.Http;
using Com.FastSearch.Esp.Search.Result;
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