I want confirm if the Transaction that Entity Framework's ObjectContext.Connection.BeginTransaction() method returns uses the support of MSDTC (Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator) or not...

We have a web service on server #1 and a database on server #2. Web service uses transaction scope to produce distributed transaction. Everything is correct. And we have another database on server...

I'm currently upgrading an app to SQL 2008 / Server 2008 R2 x64 and I'm seeing some strange behaviour that I have not seen on SQL 2005 / Server 2003. Randomly I get an exception from MSDTC: The par...

We are using transaction scope features of ASP.NET to manage distributed transaction for that we need to enable distributed transaction via following link: The partner transaction manager has...

How to changing existing COM+ applications identity via vbs script. like Authentication level = none and identity to this user via vb scripts. found many posting on add/delete com+ applications but...

Background: I am aware of this SO question about Transactional NTFS (TxF) and this article describing how to use it, but I am looking for real-world experience with a reasonably high-volume enterp...

I have an application that I would like to have support SQL Server Mirroring. However, the architecture is currently such that multiple WCF services and DB connections will be enlisted in a single ...

I've written some tests for .net code that invokes calls to my SQL Server. It appears that using System.Transactions is an excellent choice for rolling back any modifications to the database that r...

How can I reliably check that MSDTC has promoted a transaction to a distributed transaction? This is when using TransactionScope in .net. Currently a co-worker is testing this by shutting down th...

I’m trying to determine the behaviour of multiple database connection in a distributed transaction. I’ve got a long running process which spawns a series of threads and each thread is then respons...

I am using LINQ to SQL and a third party SDK that supports distributed transactions. When I realize that a pending update will be updating both SQL records and records in the third party SDK, I am ...

In .Net, is there any way to determine whether the ambient transaction is DTC transaction or not when debugging. I investigated SqlConnection class members but I found nothing. thanks.

From my understanding NServiceBus executes the Handle method of an IMessageHandler within a transaction, if an exception propagates out of this method, then NServiceBus will ensure the message is p...

We are using MSDTC for SQL transactions. I am having issue with setting up firewall for MSDTC to work. The application and SQL are running on separate machine. Currently MSDTC is working if i...

We're in the process of moving our SQL Server to it's own machine, but I'm having issues getting transactions through MSDTC to work. Here is the error message ASP.Net is generating for me: The...

I have a considerably large application that uses MSDTC. How many ports should I open? Is there any way to determine it? EDIT: I know what ports I need to open, I don't know how many I need.

Is there any way to determine precisely why a System.Transaction TrasactionScope is being escalated to the DTC? We are hitting a bump with one of our components that seem to escalate the transactio...

When using ado.net, and creating multiple connections to a MS SQL Server database within a single transaction (using System.Transactions.TransactionScope), does System.Transactions elevate the tran...

When we using a transation from System.Transactions (creating TransationScope for an instance) by default all Sql-connections (System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection) (but is't also the true for Oracl...