A library could address one or both of these topics. The title of this article is therefore somewhat misleading (i.e. just focusing on the graphical display of a graph).
the casual dismissal of something fairly revolutionary can be blamed on a high degree of ignorance on the part of the person doing the dismissing
The Microsoft Indexing Service and Microsoft Search Service (used by SQL Server) both support, and have done so for some time, COM components that implement the IFilter interface.
An IFilter component allows indexing of data inside of non-"plain text" file formats. For instance, Adobe provides a PDF IFilter component which allows full-text indexing of PDF files.
These services can also index custom document properties stored in the NTFS file-system.
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I think there are two issue here: a data structure called by the name "graph" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_(data_structur e)), and a means to visualize these structures.
A library could address one or both of these topics. The title of this article is therefore somewhat misleading (i.e. just focusing on the graphical display of a graph).
The Microsoft Indexing Service and Microsoft Search Service (used by SQL Server) both support, and have done so for some time, COM components that implement the IFilter interface.
An IFilter component allows indexing of data inside of non-"plain text" file formats. For instance, Adobe provides a PDF IFilter component which allows full-text indexing of PDF files.
These services can also index custom document properties stored in the NTFS file-system.
So much for revolutionary.