MSN has released the final version of their MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search, formerly known as the MSN Toolbar Suite with Desktop Search.

Download the final release

[ Via Dan Crevier's Blog ]

You can Download the source and presentation and follow the readme.txt to get set up.  The source has examples of consuming all of the application blocks.  It also includes an example of how to integrate ASP.NET’s Forms Authentication and Enterprise Library  Authentication/Authorization block.

[ Via Doug Rohrer's Blog ]

Brandon Paddock wrote interesting article about executing MSN Desktop Search from
your application.

The source looks like a hack ,but works excellent.

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The highest number of respondents selected .Net as their organization’s preferred framework/API, followed by Unix/Linux and Microsoft Win32/COM/DCOM.

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