Thursday, April 14, 2011

Microsoft Sync Framework is not a mirroring technology

I think I got it wrong, I wanted to sync two folders by using Microsoft Sync Framework , so I downloaded their sample and it did a very good job of copying folder A content to folder B BUT after few minutes I saw that if altered the state of folder B (Like deleting a folder) than when doing the sync again the folder didn’t come back to life – apparently only changes that are detected on the source are applied to the target

 

Am I doing something wrong (coz according to the article the knowledge of the target and knowledge of the source is used to determine the payload that should be synced)?

Should I be disappointed or I simply expected something that is not intended to do?

* I don’t want to have two way sync (I want to mirror A to B)

3 comments:

Gregory Miller said...

Its not a mirroring technology? As much as I find that hard to believe, your words are soothing like baby lotion. The baby lotion is missing an ingredient though.

You know what that is?
Curry

Ran Davidovitz said...

Actually i don't really understand...
Can you provide more details on that?

Anonymous said...

You can do that by setting the synchronization flow to Download or Upload.
Hope this helps.
Puneet