Developing ActiveSync Applications
Based on the functionality described thus far, several types of applications can be built based on ActiveSync services and used to synchronize device data with a desktop PC:
ActiveSync provider: As described in the ActiveSync provider section, the ActiveSync architecture is extensible and allows custom providers to be implemented. Although this approach is the most difficult of those described in this section for Compact Framework developers (because of the reliance on COM), this type of application represents the tightest integration with ActiveSync.
File synchronization: Although it is not typically discussed in most Windows CE resources, using the file-synchronization support included in ActiveSync allows ...
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