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I have submitted a new C# tutorial which introduces you to the Microsoft Sync Framework by walking you through four sample Visual Studio projects. Each project builds on its predecessor with increasing complexity.    Since we are trying to make sure we have all the key concepts covered in this tutorial, I would love to hear your feedback on it, specifically if there are other areas that you think we need to cover in this tutorial.

• Sync101 With Metadata Store – Demonstrates a basic provider for an in-memory data store (replica) that uses the SqlCeMetadataStore class to store the metadata in a SQL Server Compact Edition database.
• Sync101 Refactored – Factors out the replica-specific code from the code common to any provider in preparation for the next step of adding an additional provider. Also uses a more flexible transfer mechanism class to allow accommodation of more complex schemas.
• Sync101 Add Xml Provider – Adds a new provider that represents a data store comprised of XML files.
• Sync101 Add Csv Provider – Adds a new provider that represents a data store containing Comma-Separated Values (CSV) files and also uses XML configuration files to specify the transfer mechanism class properties and the property mappings between providers.

Please go here to download this sync tutorial.
 

Liam Cavanagh

FeedSync defines the minimum extensions necessary to enable loosely-cooperating applications to use XML-based container formats such as Atom and RSS as the basis for item sharing. One of the guiding principles of FeedSync is to reinvent as little as possible—hence the use of Atom and RSS for exchanging FeedSync data. It is expected that there will be additional container format bindings for FeedSync in the future. FeedSync is useful in any scenario that uses Web protocols and data representations such as RSS and Atom to exchange information with the Web services and between peers where there are no inter-item dependencies and item can be synchronized as a whole entity.

The FeedSync spec can be found at http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/xml/bb510102.aspx.

FeedSync and Microsoft Sync Framework

Microsoft Sync Framework is the platform and runtime for adding synchronization roaming, and offline capabilities to applications, devices, and services. The Sync Framework includes support for FeedSync, and we envision several ways that FeedSync can interoperate with the Sync Framework, including:

1. When you want to publish or consume the contents of your data store in the form of an RSS or Atom feed, with minimal changes to your application. This is helpful when there is an existing ecosystem of Microsoft Sync Framework endpoints which synchronize with each other and you want to bridge this ecosystem to a Web service or to another synchronization ecosystem. In this case there needs to be a mapping between the data store’s data and metadata, and a FeedSync representation of that data and metadata.
2. You wish to synchronize a set of data that is entirely represented by an RSS or ATOM feed. An example of this may be if you wish to write a calendar application that stores its data in a feed format for publishing.

To solve the first problem, Microsoft Sync Framework supports FeedSync feed producer/consumer APIs, which makes it very easy to produce or consume a feed from a particular data store. Those APIs completely hide the synchronization nature of the producing/consuming process. They also handle remapping the metadata to and from FeedSync, while allowing you to implement a simple interface which handles the remapping of the data. See the Feed Producer and Consumer APIs in the Microsoft Sync Framework documentation for more information.

The second problem requires a lower level set of sync services that are able to perform metadata translation between Microsoft Sync Framework and FeedSync representations. We’ll call these services “core FeedSync interoperability sync services”. See Sync Services for FeedSync Components for more information.

Andrei & Aaron

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Infra Recorder is a free CD/DVD burning solution for Microsoft Windows. It offers a wide range of powerful features; all through an easy to use application interface and Windows Explorer integration.

Features:
- Create custom data, audio and mixed-mode projects and record them to physical discs as well as disc images.
- Supports recording to dual-layer DVDs.
- Blank (erase) rewritable discs using four different methods.
- Record disc images (ISO and BIN/CUE).
- Fixate discs (write lead-out information to prevent further data from being added to the disc).
- Scan the SCSI/IDE bus for devices and collect information about their capabilities.
- Create disc copies, on the fly and using a temporary disc image.
- Import session data from multi-session discs and add more sessions to them.
- Display disc information.
- Save audio and data tracks to files (.wav, .wma, .ogg, .mp3 and .iso).

Source: winAddons

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Source: Life Hacker