Microsoft sync framework

Microsoft sync framework is a fully functional synchronization platform that enables collaboration and offline access between applications, services, and devices.

It provides some technologies and tools that support roaming, sharing, and obtaining data offline. By using the sync framework, developers can build a synchronization ecosystem to integrate any application with any data in any storage using any protocol on any network.

The sync framework contains the following components. The first three components can be installed with SQL Server 2008:

1. sync services for ADO. n e t, which can be used in offline and collaborative solutions to synchronize databases.

2. The core component of the sync framework, which can be used by sync services for ADO. n e t to synchronize databases. It can also be used to create synchronization providers for other types of data storage.

3. sync services for feedsync, which can be used to synchronize RSS and atom sources with data stored locally.

4. sync services for file systems, which can be used to synchronize files and folders in the file system.

5. Metadata storage service, which can be used to store synchronization metadata in SQL Server compact 3.5.

Generally, Microsoft's software has the data synchronization function. That is to say, most of these software has built-in data synchronization plug-ins. The scope of these synchronization components is currently clear software mainly Microsoft Office (version 2007 and later), Microsoft Visual Studio (version 2006 and later) as well as alicloud's Circuit Design Software Protel dxp, designer and other large software, the main use of the software data synchronization function is designers and researchers, in addition, the software capacity required to use the synchronization data feature is relatively large, and the operation cost is also large. Therefore, users who only use the design function cancel the data synchronization function of the software, remove synchronization components to reduce system running costs.

Microsoft sync framework must be used together with the synchronization server to use the data synchronization function, that is, the software system and the data server constitute a synchronization platform, the synchronization process is the data transmission and exchange process between the software system and the data server. After applying for a data space on the data server, you can synchronize the data in your own software library with the data on the server, generally, the application for data space is free of charge by the software system.