SharePoint: Search as You Type

My first CodePlex project! WOO HOO.

I saw some references online about being able to search as you type in the search box in SharePoint. I thought cool and continued searching and came across a few people who have done it. I compiled and took the stuff I liked from

• Jan Tielens’ post introducing the idea.
• Muhimbi’s post which took Jan’s post and cleaned it up a little and attached it to the SharePoint search box.
• John’s post which also took Muhimbi’s post and added wildcard search capabilities.
• Herve’s post which took Muhimbi’s post and focused it on people search and added paging.

and combined the above changes and features and created a single copy. So I made the follow modifications and merges

• Started with Muhimbi’s cleaned up version.
• Cleaned up the results list to make it a little more readable and user friendly.
• Added a more results link at the bottom to send the user to their full search page.
• Added paging from Herve’s post.
• Added wildcard search and fixed IE XML issue from John’s post.

I decided to post this up to CodePlex, seeing it’s becoming a community built effort anyway.

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