Getting Started with MSF and Sync Services for ADO.NET
As is the trend with many new Microsoft technologies, much of the work of configuring and preparing your application is done by wizards and other code-generation mechanisms. In the sections that follow, we examine how to use the MSF-related tools and templates provided with SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 to accomplish our goal of building an OCA-style Windows Forms application.
To begin, you must first have MSF installed on your local machine. To accomplish this, you have two options: install the feature using the SQL Server installer (illustrated in Figure 45.12) or download MSF using the links found at MSF’s home page at http://www.msdn.com/sync.
Figure 45.12 Installing MSF via ...
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