Category: Synchronization Framework

This is a follow-up to Bryant Likes’ post where he gave a prototype solution for file synchronization over WCF. I converted the code to Microsoft Sync Framework 2.0 so now it compiles and seems to run well enough. But you have to keep in mind that it isn’t a complete example (it wasn’t that in…

Self-referencing tables – or, at least circular foreign key references between tables – are probably a common thing in all but the simplest database designs. Yet Microsoft Sync Framework doesn’t have a clear strategy on how to replicate such data. I found various suggestions on the net: order rows so that the parent records come…

Ok, I’ve finally gotten around to installing the CTP2 of the Sync framework. Let’s see what new and interesting stuff I got with it: 1. A headache. 2. Erm… anything else? All witticism aside, a lot of details have probably changed, but the main gripe I had still stands: there is no support for hub-and-spoke…

How to finally get the SQL Express Client Sync Provider to work correctly? It’s been almost a year since it was released, and still it has documented bugs. One was detected by Microsoft more than a month after release and documented on the forum, but the fix was never included in the released version. We…

It seems that the Microsoft Sync Framework is being developed in a hurry. It is a quite a big task – or at least it should become big if we’re to have a serious data distribution framework – therefore it probably merits some patience, but the first thing that is sacrificed in similar cases is…