Microsoft Sync Service 4.0 CPT

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Hi,
I have a project where I am going to need to replicate/sync data from an SQL database to devices running .NETMF.
I have been looking at using MS Sync Framework service, will I be able to consume this service on my .NETMF board.
If I can, are there any examples about?
Many thanks
Craig

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MS Sync Framework is not supported. If you would like to use it you would have to start at socket level and build your requests/parse the responses. I suggest to create a dedicated proxy service that would translate you net mf calls to ms sync calls. This way you can use simple REST approach for example.

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Thanks for the reply,

I have been doing some more playing around since my post. I believe the MS Sync service is a REST and the 4.0 CPT has also included an http standard protocol using either ATOM or JSON. As I only need to sync data to my device the DownloadChanges method is a simple GET that returns XML. I have managed to do the full sync but so far have not worked out how to do the changes only sync, documentation is sparse.

But I think you should be able to do everything you want using plain old GETs and POSTs with ATOM payloads, although I am a little concerned at the size of the XML that will be returned.

Thanks again for your reply, I had thought about the proxy service and I still might go for that so I can control the volume of data in the sync messages as I would rather remove the bloated XML that is used in the Sync Service.

Craig