Azure Search

Projects List

• Create and Populate (CreateAndPopulateApp) - This is a console application designed to show how to create and populate Azure Cognitive Search indexes in code. It has a menu system that allows you to try different options.
  • Technology: Console Application
    • Note 1: Name = CreateAndPopulateApp.sln
    • Note 2: Show how to programmatically create an index, data source, indexer
    • Note 3: Manually upload data using the NuGet package.
• CustomBlobIndexer - This is an example of a custom indexer that will monitor a Storage Container and create index documents
  • Technology: Azure Function (isolated)
    • Note 1: Name = CustomBlobIndexer.sln
    • Note 2: Monitors changes using a BlobTrigger. Note this is great for demos, but you should use Event Grid in production for monitoring changes!
    • Note 3: It has endpoints for creating the index
    • Note 4: It has endpoints for querying the index
    • Note 5: It can call an Open AI endpoint as well if configured properly.
• CustomMongoDbIndexer - This is an example of a custom indexer that will monitor a MongoDB's change stream
  • Technology 1: Azure Function (isolated)
    • Note 1: Name = IndexHelperApp.sln
    • Note 2: Used for creating the index and querying the Cognitive Search index as well as creating, updating and deleting MongoDB documents.
  • Technology 2: Worker Service
    • Note 1: Name = WorkerServiceMongoIndexerApp.sln
    • Note 2: Used for long term monitoring of MongoDB change stream. It will create, update and delete Cognitive Search index documents based on MongoDB changes.
• CustomSqlServerIndexer - This is an example of a custom indexer that will use a timer to periodically update a Coginitive Search index with changes.
  • Technology: Azure Function (isolated)
    • Note 1: Name = CustomSqlServerIndexer.sln
    • Note 2: Fires a timer periodically to check for changes. You can also hit an HttpTrigger endpoint and force it to do it immediately.
    • Note 3: It has endpoints for creating the index
    • Note 4: It has endpoints for querying the index
• Web - This is a standalone backend server that demonstrates two different styles of for querying a Coginitive Search index.
  • Technology: Web API
    • Note 1: Name = SearchWeb.sln
    • Note 2: It uses an out-of-the-box SQL IndexER to create index items.
    • Note 3: It uses EF migrations to create and seed the database its database
      Notes
• See the readme.md file in each project for setup instructions.

Create a Basic SKU Azure Search

Branching scheme

• DotNet6: .NET Core 6.0 example
• [Future] I will create a branch for each version of .NET