Lucene.Net is a source code, class-per-class, API-per-API and algorithmatic port of the Java Lucene search engine to the C# and .NET platform utilizing Microsoft .NET Framework.

• Lucene in Action book, First and Second Edition
• Lucene Intro and QueryParser Rules by Erik Hatcher (Java version)
• Introducing Lucene.Net: A plunge intro creating a fast, full text index, with advanced searching capabilities.
• LINQ to Lucene: Providing a custom LINQ solution for the Lucene Information Retrieval System, commonly referred to as a search-engine.
  • LINQ & Lambda, Part 4: Lucene.Net.
• NHibernate.Search using Lucene.NET Full Text Index by Simon Green
  • Part 1: How to use Lucene.NET with NHibernate to provide full-text searching.
  • Part 2: Performing Google-like searches of NHibernate-persisted objects using Lucene.NET search engine.
  • Part 3: Using Lucene.NET to find similar items for ‘posts like this’ or ‘related pages’.
• C# and Lucene to index and search: This sample will show you how to use Lucene from your .NET application to index and search content.
• Fun with Lucene.Net for BlogEngine.Net by Jared
• Apache Lucene.Net 2.1 Class Library API
• Apache Lucene – Query Parser Syntax: Although Lucene provides the ability to create your own queries through its API, it also provides a rich query language through the Query Parser, a lexer which interprets a string into a Lucene Query.

Inspired by: “Apache Lucene and Lucene.Net – Full Text Search Servers” by Jonathan Allen.