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Is there a way to get Address Book contact ID's from Sync Services contact ID's?

When getting the modified contacts from Sync Services, through the applyChange:forEntityName:remappedRecordIdentifier:formattedRecord:error method. The IDs in the address book are of the form 2C13E20E-6B24-4090-81FA-7A1E8B28119B, and even though…
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Access to Safari bookmarks from another application

I was wondering how we can access Safari bookmarks from another Cocoa application on Mac OS X, in a way that is safe and secure for the future. As you may know, two mechanisms were common to retreive Safari bookmarks: either read Safari's…
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MACOSX - When calling -finishSyncing on an ISyncSessionDriver the app makes repeated calls to the delegate

I'm using Sync Services in my application. I'm using the normal way of getting the contacts from the address book (using sync services). I want to prematurely end a sync session if the user decides to do that, therefore, when the user presses the…
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Sync Services and iOS

Suppose I already have an OS X app which syncs its data using Sync Services with MobileMe. Is there an way to make my iPhone/iPad app to sync (using MobileMe or not) the data using what I already prepared for the Sync Services? I guess Apple…
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Now that Sync Services are becoming obsolete, what's a reliable alternative to syncing the contacts on OSX?

Sync Services are no longer being updated since OSX Lion. Maybe soon they won't be around any more. What are the alternatives to be used now in order to sync contacts? edit - more clarification: The context I'm asking this in is building a sync…
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Can I sync mobile, desktop and web server databases with Sync Framework?

I'm using Sync Framework v1 (which includes Sync Services for ADO.NET v2) and Sync Services for mobile v1. I can sync a SQL Compact Edition database from a mobile device to SQL Express on a desktop PC. I can also sync a SQL CE database from a…
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Sync Schema Versioning

Now that I have registered my sync services schema, how do I update it to my new model version?
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How to invoke ical sync service?

I have an application that syncs with iCal through the Calendar Store framework. I've noticed that I need to open iCal for the sync service to start and transfer events and tasks added with my application to my ipad and iphone. So.. my question, is…
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Android sync is rescheduled even when successfully completed

I have a sync adapter running periodically to upload/download data to a server. Despite the sync completing successfully, the Android sync manager is continually rescheduling the sync, even when no work was actually done as there was nothing new to…
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Can Sync Services add a column on the central table?

Is it possible to have Sync Services for ADO.NET read data from a table on multiple devices and insert it into a central SQL Server, having an additional column in the central table with the origin of the row data? Let's say I have equipped…
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Identity Property in Sync Services

can someone help me understand the identity property on an entity attribute? Im thinking of the identity property as a table "key" as in a Relational Database, but I'm guessing this is not it. Im using core data and in my entities I have not defined…
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How to run two concurrent services in android

i have created two services for timer but when i run both one wait until first is finished,so my question is how to run them concurrently. Thanks,Dk
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Anything similar to Apple's sync services or Microsoft's sync framework?

I'm looking for anything that facilitates syncing local data with some server on the internet. It doesn't have to be as mature as those two and any platform is fine, I'm just looking at different approaches to the problem.
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convert always connected to occasionally connected application

I have an existing client-server 3-tier application with the following stack : Smart-Client (Win-Forms) IIS/ASP.NET Sql server Some of the data is stored in Entity–attribute–value (EAV) model. All primary keys are integer identity…
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Local Data Cache - How do I refresh the local db when I add fields to remote db?

I'm using a Local Data Cache in an ASP.NET 3.5 environment. I made a change in my main database by adding a new field. I double click on my .SYNC file in my project to startup the Local Data Cache wizard again. The wizard starts and I click OK with…
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