Microsoft Sync Framework is a comprehensive synchronization platform enabling collaboration and offline capabilities for applications, services and devices with support for any data type, any data store, any transfer protocol, and network topology. Developers can build sync ecosystems that integrate any application, any type of data, using any protocol over any network.

The framework consists of:

• Core sync runtime that provides universal synchronization functionality agnostic of data types and protocols
• Ability to create and consume FeedSync-compliant feeds
• Components to enable the rapid development of sync solutions on platforms including Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, NTFS file systems and removable drives
• An extensible provider model that integrates data sources into the sync ecosystem
• Rich conflict handling for automatic and custom resolution
• Built in support for filters to sync subsets of collections such as mailboxes or media libraries
• Minimize network traffic with property-level sync