The Synchronizer

The same bits released with Orcas Beta 1.0 are now available as a standalone package. The documentation update is out too, although few days ago (our technical writers rocks!) To download the runtime click here . To download the documentation client...

The annoying comilation errors that you see when trying to build OfflineAppDemo projects with beta 1 runtime are now gone. Most of these errors were just cleanup of unused constructs we had in the early CTP release. Here is a quick refresher of the offline...

A great thread on the sync services forum yesterday brought up this interesting question on what happens if the sync session is interrupted due to connection failure or client application crash …etc. To visualize the scenario in your mind, picture an...

Ready for a new offline application demo? This one is really cool. In this demo I tried to show off one important feature of the framework design and how to use it to elegantly solve one common issue with synchronization systems. So let’s first talk about...

I tuned to Mix07 yesterday to listen to the keynote from Ray Ozzie. Ray draws the picture for the software and service model. One important statement in the keynote made feel really good, Ray said “Even software as a service vendors have found a need...

If you are going to TechEd this year, don’t miss the synchronization services presentation and hands-on lab. This is a great opportunity to get into the sync space which is expanding rather rapidly with special focus on building offline applications....

An updated documentation and samples for Sync Services has been posted couple of days ago. The documentation and samples are targeted for Orcas Beta 1.0 release. That said, if you still using the CTP release of Sync Services, you will get build errors...

For those of you who sent me feedback on my article at code project http://www.codeproject.com/smartclient/takedataoffline.asp , Thank You! I’ve updated the article as a response to your feedback. The changes are as follows: Fix the update trigger...