Microsoft is ready for "offline": introduces a synchronization framework

Microsoft released a synchronization platform called Microsoft sync framework, which allows developers to create offline applications, devices, and services, it can be integrated with any type of data of any application.

This framework is designed to be highly scalable and has many commendable features:

• You can add synchronization support for new and existing applications, services, and devices.
• Add collaboration and offline capabilities for any application
• Free information sharing with any data storage via any protocol under any network conditions
• Create a synchronization system environment with the excellent synchronization capabilities of Microsoft technology
• You can extend the architecture to support specific data types, including files

This framework contains a large amount of data to provide objects to support common data sources. developers can also create their own specific data to provide objects.

Three data objects are provided in this SDK:

• Sync services for ADO. net: Synchronize data with the ADO. NET data source.
• Sync services for file systems: Synchronize with files and folders.
• Sync services for SSE: Synchronize with simple shared extensions (SSE), such as RSS and atom aggregation sources.

Microsoft said that this framework is not a competing product with Google gears. Google gears is a browser's add-in, while Microsoft's synchronization framework is a tool that allows developers to synchronize arbitrary data.

The operating systems supported by this framework include Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, and Windows XP, which will be included in the Visual Studio November to be released by the end of 2008.

For more information about the Microsoft synchronization framework, You can query the Microsoft website, or download the framework from the website. You can submit questions about the framework usage to the corresponding Microsoft forum.

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