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Ok, my fancy new phone is great, but I do not use Outlook and will not use Outlook.

Ideally, I just want to synchronize my Calendar and Contact items with an SQL Server database on my own machine. I can then write a web interface (my machine runs IIS over my cable modem), export some calendar free/busy information for my public web site, export other calendars via iCalendar for Google Calendar users, etc.

And, AFAICT, there’s no way to write ActiveSync plugins using the .NET Compact Framework, only native code.

*sigh*

Anyone know of a good Calendar/Contact replacement for Windows CE 5.0 that doesn’t require me to move my life into Outlook just to stay synchronized with my PC?

Also, has anyone used Cassioware CwSync? Their web site looks like poop, but the ability to sync automatically via HTTP-retrieved XML files to various web and local resources sounds very cool. I run my own web site, so I could export XML using ASP.NET that would at least one-way sync all sorts of goodies to my phone, including, possibly, iCalendar files downloaded from Google. The only missing step would then be to find a Calendar app for Windows Mobile that can read the file.