florian morrenth - professional web consultant

With custom Personalization Providers it's easy to create your custom store (DB, XML, flat file, etc) eg. for editable Web Parts. But you get only a BLOB created by the WebPartManager to deal (store, retrieve, clear, etc) with and cannot read the actual content of the Personalization. This is why you cannot create a Full Text Search over personalized Web Pages easily. To achieve this you have to deserialize the WebPartManager's BLOB which format is kind of cryptic and not documented. So I used Lutz Roeder 's .Net Reflector before it was bought by Red Get sneaked into Microsoft's Code and extracted the relevant code for Serialization and Deserialization of these BLOBs.

Here is a schematic overview of what you can do with this Full Text Personalization Provider Framework. Download sample Project to support Full Text Search. All you need to do is implement your custom storage: CustomPersonalization.zip