Introduction the TM Lookup Tool

This sample project provides a step-by-step guide of how to develop a custom application that allows you to perform common translation memory lookup operations.

Looking up information in a TM database is one of the most common applications of the Translation Memory API. For example, you may want to integrate TM lookup functionality in a third-party application, which allows you to carry out concordance searches in a TM from a Web-based CMS.

The simple C# application which we are going to develop should allow for the following:

• Select a TM (file-based or server-based)
• Perform concordance searches which return matching TUs with additional information such as fields and the creation date.
• Perform concordance searches in the source or target language

This simplified sample application is a case in point of how to implement TM search functionality in other applications, e.g. integrate TM lookup functions in a 3rd party application or design custom TM lookup user interfaces.

See Also

Setting up the Project

Adding the Main GUI

Adding the Server TM Selection Form

Adding the Search Settings Form

Adding the Connector Class

Implementing the Search Functionality