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How to use it

To use Search Control on every programming platform, you need to follow this three steps:

1. Declare a variable and make instance of Search Control.

2. Set properties values according to your needs.

3. It is usual to place one button to your web or Windows form and set its caption to "Search". On button's click event call getWhereClause method of Search Control to get a valid SQL WHERE clause. Append this string to your SQL query and you get searched database query or table rows.

That is it. All hard parts will be done by Search Control. Possibly, like in The Beatles lyrics example, you can place a few text and dropdown controls so your application's users could change search conditions as they want.

If you experience a difficulties with any of this steps, please request support so we can help you.