ActiveSync 4.0

[Eric Renken]

Can you develop a managed ActiveSync provider in AS 4.0? I would like to
create a complete package from the application to the AS provider all in C#
using VS 2005. Just wondering if this is possible and anyone have any
resources on this?

Eric Renken

 

[Ginny Caughey [MVP]]

Eric,

No a managed Activesync provider is not possible.

 

[Chris Botha]

Hi Ginny, you can register your assemblies as COM objects using RegAsm, and
from the assembly P/Invoke into unmanaged code. I haven't written one of
these beasts, but won't this be possible then?

 

[Ginny Caughey [MVP]]

Chris,

Unfortuately no. The main problem is that the unmanaged Today app that loads
today screen plugins as DLLs can't host the CLR, which any managed DLL would
need to have running somehow. It's a good thought though.