hi

this is my first post in here and i don't even know if i'm asking in
the right place
(if not can you direct me to where can i ask this question please?!)

I'd like to do an application which looks through word documents in a
folder for a given word, phrase, sentence, title.. whatever... and
displays a list of documents which contain that phrase... (to spare me
the hassle of having to remember in which seminar i heard about a
particular topic!)

basically i have a considerable amount of training material which i've
collected throughout the years and which keeps being added every week
and i'd like to use this tool when preparing training myself.. i would
just look for a topic with this application and have a list of *.doc
which contain that topic.

I know that there are ready made programs which do this (or simply the
search in windows) but i'd like to do it myself, and would like it to
have it's own interface (not using start>search) to make it easy for
other people to use.

these are my questions.

1. what language do you suggest to write the program in?
2. will i need to store info in a database or can i just give the
folder path?
3. any suggestions for readymade functions which i can use?
4. any websites which can help me develop it?
5. am i missing something?

hope that was clear... thanks a lot

Matthew