Finally the transactional replication works - a clarification on View Synchorization Status

Scenario:

see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa337437.aspx for creating a continuous transactional replication on Windows 7 Ultimate, SQL Server 2012 Dev 64 bit (the instance is a named instance CK-PC\SQL2012). The pub and sub are in the same instance.

Problems:

I have faced several problems as documented in the earlier posts. But after I correctly created a local publication and subscription, I finally see the following screen in the last step of Lesson 2.


This is good! 

Solution: 

Just do some DML activities, the dialog box will indicate the synchronization between pub and sub as below.