How do you run Lucene on .net?

Question

Lucene is an excellent search engine, but the .NET version is behind the official Java release (latest stable .NET release is 2.0, but the latest Java Lucene version is 2.4,

Answer 1

I converted the Lucene 2.4 from jar to dll through this way but now it gives me an error that 'Type or namespace Lucene could not be found'. I removed the old dll from the project and added reference for the new one. I really want to get rid of the old version as it took around 2 days and in the end during optimization it gave some error and now the index is not updateable :S. I read somewhere that Lucene 2.4 indexing speed is many times faster than the old versions, if I use 2.3.1 from SVN will that be faster too?