Hi John

Thanks for the reply.

MSFTSQL
The closest thing I found to starting and stopping the service was in the  
Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Wmi namespace, the most likely class being
the ServiceCollection which contains classes of type Service.  The
documentation doesn't say, but I'm assuming the Service properties are
read-only, makes sense that they are, the Service class methods include
give-aways such as Start, Stop, Pause etc.  I'm working up an example to test
this.

Xml Thesaurus Files
The application I'm designing requires FTS across multiple languages (6 in
total).  I would like the administrators of this system to be able to
configure the thesaurus words in a 'cleaner' way than having them dig into
the Xml files directly on the Sql Server box.  So that advantage of a
Microsoft provided API is to ensure schema and location.  In turn I provide a
UI that would interact with the API.  The classes that may provide this sort
of functionality are again in the Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo
namespace i.e. XmlRead but the documentaion doesn't tell me what Xml these
classes are capable of reading.  The class FullTextService doesn't offer any
clues on how the thesaurus files are read into Sql Server.

Appreciate any tip-bits you have.

Craig