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ferguslogic

Oct 09, 2006 at 5:11 PM

Hi everyone,

I have a C# 2.0 /Sql Express 05 winforms application that gets deployed to about 200 businesses across the U.S.

In the C# applicaiton I have started to use transactionScope like so

using (TransactionScope ts = new TransactionScope())

{

aEntity.save(); //opens connection to database A
bEntity.save(); //also opens connection to database A

ts.Complete();

}

Even though 2 connections with the same connection string are being opened to the same database Microsoft is still promoting this transaction to a distributed transaction and it is being handled by MSDTC. How do I know? I shut the MSDTC service off and this fails with a message that says "MSDTC is not turned on".

Its a small pain and some overhead but overall I am fine with this promotion and I have one question that I need answered.

Does MSDTC run automatically on windows 2000, XP home, XP Pro and Vista because these are the platforms I need to support.

Users download this application via the web and I need to know whether I am going to have to configure MSDTC or not for them.

thanks for the MSDTC help.
ferguslogic

Oct 09, 2006 at 5:34 PM

From what I have read MSDTC is on all Microsoft platforms.

So I am anticpating this to be true and I am using a .net service controller to check if MSDTC is running. If it not running I start it myself.

If anyone knows differently please let me know.

thanks a lot

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