We have a web application that deals with some general sales organizations (contacts, appointments, addresses, notes, etc.). We need to keep our app, approach, and potentially any device, which they can synchronize.
Is there any structure that can help us integrate with PDA? Any thoughts or reccomendations are appreciated thanks.
I will look at the Microsoft Sync Framework. There are several "providers" in Witch, some open source, some third part The provider is like a standardized "connection" for a dataset, such as Outlook mail, Outlook contacts, file system, database or whatever you can imagine or as Microsoft says:
Microsoft Sync Framework is a comprehensive synchronization platform that enables collaboration and offline access for applications, services and devices. It includes technologies and tools capable of roaming, sharing, and offline data. Using the Microsoft Sync Framework, Developers can create Sync Ecosystem which integrates any network with any data from any store using any protocol on any network.
The main aspect of the Microsoft Sync Framework is the ability to create custom synchronization providers. A provider is a software component that represents replication for synchronization. A replica is a special collection of synchronized information, such as file system on handheld device. When representing a data source, a provider calculates the change from its replication. When representing a destination, a provider applies changes in its replication, if the data type or destination of the source and destination varies in the schema, then each provider Makes any necessary mapping or changes.
Microsoft Sync Framework Home Page:
Introduction:
Contact Sync Sample - Outlook Sync
This sample shows how custom providers can be made to synchronize content between unequal data sources, in this sample we use Microsoft Outlook, Vista contacts and contacts between vCard files will synchronize. The main aspect of this demo is data mapping capabilities, which enables proper data sources and data types to be mapped through sync frameworks:
Microsoft Sync framework v1 0 CTP1 - Tools
Managed (.NET compact framework) and unmanaged / native (ARM) supported platforms Windows Mobile 5 and 6 (ARM processor only in CTP1)
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