[This documentation is preliminary and is subject to change.]
The Microsoft Synch Framework in SharePoint Foundation is a comprehensive and unified synchronization architecture that provides data-agnostic and bidirectional capabilities to developers. Because it was designed to provide cross-application synchronization, implementing the Microsoft Synch Framework allows other Microsoft and third-party applications to synch more easily with SharePoint Foundation 2010 deployments.
The Synch Framework provides three core building blocks:
Synch Runtime
Synch Metadata Services
Synch Provider
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