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I am sure you already know that SP1 Beta for Visual Studio 2008 is available to download . There are plenty of enhancements that I am sure the VS folks are covering all over the net with different blogs. As a sync guy, I am on the lookout for everything
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Occasionally, I receive questions about using SQL Change Tracking with PeerSyncProvider. People who examine SQL Change Tracking in preview version of SQL Server 2008 have become fans rather quickly and see the value of using it. Using change tracking
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We hear every day that more and more people are coming online with high speed internet connections, WiFi hotspots are increasingly popular and getting faster, unlimited mobile data plan are cheaper than ever and the reception is better than ever. Everyone
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A lot of excitement about the announcement of Live Mesh this week. It is interesting to see this collection of services put together tying user content, devices, and social circle together in a web enabled experience. My favorite part is the news pane
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Rob Tiffany, the mobile accelerator guy , just announced the new release of Windows Mobile Line of Business Solution Accelerator 2008 . It a collection of windows mobile centric samples that showcase different new technologies and help developers greatly
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Apart from MIX08 big announcements about Silverlight 2.0, Silverlight for mobile and IE 8.0, there were an interesting collection of announcements that if you put them together a picture of a unified API layer on top of Windows Live services will emerge.
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I remember the very beginnings when Sync Services came along and I started blogging that people asked to have the runtime works on mobile devices. That is a reasonable and expected request. After all, mobile devices are the true occasionally connected
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The term 'peer' or more commonly 'peer to peer' leads people to think about sharing and collaboration scenarios. That's good. One of the most common peer to peer applications that quickly jumps to mind is file sharing which became rather popular in the
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I am not going to miss MIX this year, period. Last year, MIX07 was a phenomenal event. Unfortunately, I did not get to attend. I kept following the announcements every day and watched some of the really good recorded sessions as they became available
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In a bit old post I wrote about min_active_rowversion() as the best way to get the new anchor showing you that @@DBTS has its flaws and thus should be avoided. Min_active_rowversion() was introduced in SP2 for SQL Server 2005. If you have code that still
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This blog has been phenomenal. Through it I was introduced to so many of you whom I have corresponded with for building sync solutions. Now it is time for me to invite you to work with me in my new tenure at Microsoft. I recently joined Mobile Services
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I admit that writing your own change tracking logic for each table you want to synchronize is a little bit annoying and suboptimal experience at best. Not just that, adding triggers affects the performance of DML operation negatively. You also need to
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I originally authored the offline application line of samples to show off the different features of Sync Services. My main goal back then was to provide you with a quick start guide such that you can get into sync quickly. The series of demos has grown
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I spent years building sync solutions in Microsoft! I loved it! Sync and replication logic is so challenging and that is very appealing to me. In learning about sync algorithms, I’ve gone into several phases. First, I learned about how to debug customer
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It is a rather slow week as most people are off on vacations. A quite time at the end of one year and beginning of another gives me an opportunity to pose a few questions and share my thoughts with you. One question is about the key highlights of this
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