How to create SearchAlert Programmatically?
Note: Make sure that you have enabled search based alerts SSP-> Search Settings -> Search Based Alerts
1: SPSite spSite = new SPSite("https://nishand:300/sites/PubSite/Search/");
2: SPWeb web = spSite.OpenWeb();
3: Query alertQuery = new KeywordQuery(spSite);
4: alertQuery.QueryText = "Hello" // Keyword
5: SearchAlert searchAlert = new SearchAlert(spSite, alertQuery);
6: searchAlert.InnerAlert.AlertFrequency = SPAlertFrequency.Daily;
7: searchAlert.InnerAlert.Title = "Alert#2"
8: searchAlert.InnerAlert.User = web.Users["domain\\user"];
9: searchAlert.Update();
How to check whether an alert named 'Alert#2' has been created?
Go to Site Actions -> Site Settings - User Alerts -> Select 'user name' and click on 'update' button.