Executive Summary
This chapter is a continuation of the discussion in the previous chapter covering the essential architectural concept of synchronization. Whereas in the previous chapter the focus was on synchronizing file-based and XML data, this chapter focuses on the two built-in synchronization mechanisms of SQL Server 2000 Windows CE Edition 2.0: RDA and merge replication. The obvious advantage to using these mechanisms is that the connectivity architecture and infrastructure work have already been done, thereby easing the work of architects and developers to integrate this functionality into custom solutions.
The connectivity architecture is the same for both RDA and replication and involves a client agent on the device making HTTP(S) ...
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