Programmatically Updating Sitecore Indexes
Ever since Sitecore 7 introduced the ContentSearch namespace, more than half of the projects I’ve worked on have required me to update Lucene indexes from code. This topic has proven to be even more complicated than publishing Sitecore items programmatically! This post will examine some of the ways you can update the Sitecore indexes as-needed, from your code, and my opinions on when you should each each method.