We often run into companies that have standardized on Visual Studio for in-house development. When one of those companies brings in a Google Search Appliance, they often want to integrated GSA results from C# ('C Sharp') applications.
MC+A is an open source project at Codeplex that accesses GSA results using the Google Enterprise XML search protocol. The download is a VS2008 'solution' that converts when loaded into VS2010, and includes the source code to 3 projects: a VB app to configure the system; the library for GSA calls, and a test/sample application.
You start by editing the web.config file to define the URL/IP address of your GSA; or you can use the provided VB application to set it up for you. The second project, GA, includes all of the .cs files and utilities for accessing the GSA; and the third is a test application for verifying success.
It's a very cool tool for fetching GSA and Google Mini results for display within a Visual Studio application; give it as try and let us know how it worked for you!
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