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Hi, I have recently made the decision to start on a new adventure outside Microsoft. With me moving out of Microsoft, I will no longer have access to manage this blog. For the past couple of years I have been cross posting all my posts on my personal...

As mentioned in my earlier post the 4.0 CTP refresh is now available. It contains the UI Helper for SyncSvcUtil.exe command line tool in addition to the iPhone sample client for the Lists sample. Please download the bits from here . We have also updated...

Back in Mix 10 we showed an application built with the intention of extending the Sync Framework to Silverlight platform. This enabled rich apps built on Silverlight for desktop and Windows Phone 7 to participate in a sync topology. At that point we only...

Sorry for the radio silence the past couple of months. We have been working on our the next version of Microsoft Sync Framework and as part of that we decided to do a little preview of our work at MIX10. For starters we have made the MIX10 Session Planner...

If you are interested in the data synchronization space then we have opportunties available on the Microsoft Sync Framework team. Refer https://careers.microsoft.com/JobDetails.aspx?ss=&pg=0&so=&rw=1&jid=11145&jlang=EN . You can apply...

Update 12/11 : Fixing a typo in the code as pointed by the commenter. With yesterdays announcement of the Microsoft Sync Framework Power Pack for SQL Azure, we have had questions on how to move sync schema from SQL Compact database up to SQL Azure...

PDC 2009 starts today and Ray Ozzie and Bob Muglia kicked off todays keynote presentation. It gives me great pleasure to announce the public availability of the MSF power pack for SQL Azure. Its a CTP and we are really excited to see people download this...

This is a continuation from the previous post I did explaining the new memory based batching feature for Database providers in MSF V2. Please refer to that post at MSF V2 CTP2 Deep Dive – Memory Based Batching . This is probably a good time to mention...

PDC 2009 is next week and I wanted to have a quick post on some of the sessions about Microsoft Sync Framework. Using the Microsoft Sync Framework to Connect Apps to the Cloud http://microsoftpdc.com/Sessions/SVC23 - Come hear how the Microsoft...

Its been quite a while since I posted about MSF v2 CTP2. As promised in my earlier posts I will be doing a series of deep-dive of the new SyncServices features added in MSF V2 CTP2. Today I am starting off with the Batching feature. One of the most...

We just released CTP2 of Microsoft Sync Framework V2. Check out the blog entry at http://blogs.msdn.com/sync/archive/2009/06/04/announcing-sync-framework-2-0-ctp2.aspx for details on major new features. We have so much to talk about Sync Services for...

Ever since we announced Project Huron at PDC last year we have been hard at work trying to scope out the scenarios for our V1 release. Due to resource contstraints we decided to scope out the Access to Cloud publish use case for V1. We instead decided...

We are looking for some SyncServices for ADO.NET users (both Hub spoke and peer to peer toplogy) to take a survey and answer questions on how they handle custom conflict resolution and business logic processing. Please head over to http://blogs.msdn.com...

I had posted earlier about the memory performance when using default DataSet serialization behavior vs. using a Surrogate. Users had some questions on how the DataSet surrogate compared with the DataSet’s Remoting SerializationFormat. With .Net Fx 2.0...

We recently updated our official MSF blog with three new Customer Spotlight case study data detailing how customers are using Microsoft Sync Framework to develop new synchronization scenarios. Here are the links to the posts. Flip Client: http://blogs...

Video: Kylie uses Windows Live Photo Gallery   Cute..very cute.

This is the second post aimed at providing tips for improving runtime memory footprint when using the P2P DbSyncProvier class in V2 of SyncServices for ADO.NET. First post link: DbSyncProvider- Improving Memory Performance In WCF Based Synchronization...

One of my first posts was a link to my managed UI wrapper that let users view/configure/edit SSL certificates on local machines. I had developed it when I worked on the System.Net team as I found it really hard to use the command line version of Httpcfg...

Recently a commenter posted that they were unable to get Favorities sync to work (or show as an valid option on the toolbar). Found a recent post by a Microsoft dev who debugged the issue. Read more at http://blogs.msdn.com/john_pollard/archive/2008/12...

Windows Live team just released the beta for Windows Live Essentials . I wanted to quickly point out the new Windows Live Favorites Sync feature that is part of the Live Toolbar. It now uses Microsoft Sync Framework (File Sync providers to be specific...

I recently got a beta invite for the Windows Azure hosting and storage services and immediately set about writing a simple hello world hosted app. I wanted to test both the Web role and the Worker role so I was looking for a simple scenario for that....

PDC 08 was last week and I wanted to summarize the PDC sync specific announcements. Hope every one had a chance to catch up on the all the impressive videos. First, Windows 7 looks impressive and I cant wait to dogfood the Beta build. As I posted earlier...

Last week, Mary Jo Foley reported that we re-released Microsoft Sync Framework V1 with updated bits. Since I hadn't seen any internal emails on this I pinged my PM to get more details. Yesterday Liam posted an entry in our Sync blog explaining the "bump...

We have 3 sessions planned for PDC. Details of the sessions : Microsoft Sync Framework Advances Presenter: Lev Novik This session shows you how the next version of the Microsoft Sync Framework makes it easier to synchronize distributed copies of data...

Users have frequently wanted the ability to remotely synchronize relational nodes in a peer to peer fashion using SyncServices for ADO.NET. We have a sample demonstrating remote synchronization by using Windows Communication Foundation (WCF). I wanted...