Uninstalling Sync Framework without breaking Visual Studio

Question

Not strictly programming-related, but I do not know where else to post this question: Is Sync Framework a truly indispensable component of Visual Studio 2010?

From what I read about the Sync Framework, it is a tool that helps developers "synchronize data across multiple data stores," (Quoted text literally taken from Wikipedia's article on Sync Framework) a task that does not seem to be central to Windows, .NET Framework or Visual Studio.

Since none of my programming activities involves anything remotely resembling such a thing as "synchronizing data across multiple data stores," I thought it would be best to uninstall Sync Framework, especially taking into account the fact I am running out of disk space on my Windows dev box. However, when I tried to uninstall Sync Framework, a warning appeared that Visual Studio depends on it, and thus might not work correctly if I uninstall it.

So, without further ado: May I uninstall Sync Framework without breaking Visual Studio 2010?

Answer 1

The Visual Studio project item Local Database Cache uses Sync Framework.

If you're not going to use that project item, then I guess you can ignore the warning.