Overview of the Microsoft Synchronization Framework for Smart Clients

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2. WEB 2.0 ASP.NET AJAX WinForms WPF Silverlight ClickOnce XBAP InfoPath MOSS

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11. Microsoft Sync Framework

12. Common Sync Metadata and Runtime “ Make-it-simple” Services Protocol and Store Providers 3 rd Party Providers OCS Framework API “ Better-together” Applications Knowledge Versions Change Enumeration Conflict Detection Metadata Store Anchor Providers “ Simple” Providers RSS/ATOM File Provider Relational Provider SQL Change Tracking Sync for ADO.NET 1 st Party API Astoria Provider 3 rd Party API

18. How do we get this to work in a distributed, services based environment? Challenge The Sync framework includes a transport layer to bridge the client and server providers together through a WCF sync adapter Solution

21. SELECT CT.ProductID, CT.SYS_CHANGE_OPERATION, CT.SYS_CHANGE_COLUMNS, CT.SYS_CHANGE_CONTEXT FROM CHANGETABLE(CHANGES SalesLT.Product,@last_synchronization_version) AS CT

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