CeRapiInitEx. Typically you'd write such a Rapi app to run as a service,
similar to what ActiveSync does.
"Paul Aspinall" <paul@aspy.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the reply.
>
> I was 'sort of' coming round to your suggestion, as I was concluding that
> it seemed IIS was necessary for everything else.
>
> As you suggest I could spool data down to XML, and manually determine
> merges. However, how could this work practically?? ie. I want the user
> simply to connect the PDA to the PC, and everything happen. How would the
> file get transferred for update. Is there a routine which I can hook into
> in order to fire the file accross, and perform merges?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> " Ginny Caughey [MVP]" <ginny.caughey.online@wasteworks.com> wrote in
> message news:OKDbXok%23EHA.208@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> Paul,
>>
>> All the canned syncing strategies do require IIS for the plumbing. Have
>> you considered writing a device app that exports the data from SqlCe to
>> XML or CSV format, then copying that file to the device where a desktop
>> app could to the syncing? You could write both apps in C#.
>> --
>> Ginny Caughey
>> .Net Compact Framework MVP
>> "Paul Aspinall" <paul@aspy.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:gDOFd.130807$48.105910@fe1.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am trying to write an app that will run on XP Home (ie. no IIS), using
>>> MSDE, but which will sync to SQL CE.
>>>
>>> Can anyone offer some pointers or code samples (prefer C#), on how to do
>>> this. All the articles I can find seem to suggest using replication, or
>>> RDA, but both appear to use IIS, and SQL 2000.
>>>
>>> Any help appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
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