Pro Sync Framework [Paperback]

Rituraj Singh (Author), Joydip Kanjilal (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1430210052 | ISBN-13: 978-1430210054 | Publication Date: November 21, 2008 | Edition: 1

The Sync Framework is an extension addition to Microsoft’s .NET 3.5 Framework to improve its ability deal with occasionally connected applications, such as those on mobile devices such as smart phones and laptop computers that do not have a single reliable means of connecting to their data sources. The Sync framework allows such applications to operate smoothly both online and offline, connecting to data in a wide variety of different ways (networked, wireless, cell-phone data protocols, etc.).

This book gives readers everything they need to start implementing Sync coding strategies within their own applications. It takes a hands-on practical approach to ensure readers are able to apply their skills practically and concludes with a worked case-study chapter to reinforce this point.

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About the Author

Joydip Kanjilal is a Microsoft MVP in ASP.NET with over 12 years of IT industry experience and more than 6 years of Microsoft .NET experience. He has authored many articles for a number of sites, several of which have been cross-published on www.asp.net – Microsoft’s official ASP.NET site.

He is currently working as a Lead Architect with Exensys. He has years of experience in designing and architecting solutions for various domains. His technical strengths include, C, C++, VC++, Java, C#, Microsoft .NET, Ajax, Design Patterns, SQL Server, Operating Systems and Computer Architecture. Joydip blogs at http://aspadvice.com/blogs/joydip and spends most of his time reading books, blogs and writing books and articles.

Rituraj Singh is an ASP.NET MCP who has been working with ASP.NET since its invention and has worked on numerous corporate web projects where he has been able to use his passion for .NET web development technologies to the full.

He is currently working as a senior consultant in Hyderabad, India. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Computers) degree from Mumbai University, India.

He has also worked with numerous other IT technologies ranging from C, C++, Cobol, Pascal to ASP.NET, C#, SQL, Visual Studio Team System, MSCRM 3.0 and many more.

Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (November 21, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1430210052
• ISBN-13: 978-1430210054
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,144,173 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Okay...Not great..., March 29, 2011

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The book does a pretty good job of explaining the process of creating your own sync providers. It's not thorough in it's explanation by any means, but sufficient. The authors also have a tendency to repeat themselves. There are a few sections that seem to just reiterate material that was previously covered.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Poor value, go for MSDN, December 22, 2009

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This book is somehow useful for people who like to learn about a topic in a sequential fashion. However, much better level of content is available for free online on the MSDN portal.

The book has a lot of verbatim quotes from the official MSF 1.0 documentation and seems to be a very simple regurgitation of it. The authors don't seem to have a lot of real life experience with building complex application with MSF. Besides, the code snippets in the book are pretty poorly formatted.

The book is full of generic assertions and copy/paste paragraphs.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Just Awful, June 3, 2010

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I'm not often motivated to write a review, but in this case I feel obligated to spare others time, money and frustration. The book was chock full of typos, and not just incidental, but sometimes confusing important issues. The very first sample project does not work properly, even though I loaded the source from Apress's web site, and ran it against a recently downloaded Microsoft Sync Framework. But the worst part was the organization, which leads you in great detail (sufficient? How can you know?) in building custom interfaces, all the while telling you that using the interfaces provided by Microsoft are to be preferred, but not describing them or telling you how to use them.
I went through the first few chapters in detail, hoping for the best. But then I skimmed through the rest, searching for something that might be of value to me. To no avail.
I purchased this book because it seemed to be the only one on the topic, but the Microsoft web sites describing Sync Framework were much better written, presented and illustrated, and overall much, much more helpful.