Understanding and Using System.Transactions

Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:10:42 +0000

These are some resources to help grasp System.Transactions functionality and use it effectively in your projects:

Features Provided by System.Transactions to create transactional applications
Implementing an Implicit Transaction using Transaction Scope
MSDN Magazine Articles by John Papa:
- ADO.NET and System.Transactions
- Revisiting System.Transactions
These are specific to TransactionScope(the way to go in most cases):
- Here is a practical example of Using TransactionScope to handle transactions in .net.
- This article in MSDN Magazine gets in depth with the way a TransactionScope like functionality can be implemented. Gives you a good understanding of what is happening under the hood when using TransactionScope in some Repository implementations in multi-threaded scenarios.
- This CodeProject article is another example of implementing a transactional repository.
- There are excellent tips here about configuring TransactionScope when using it with SQL Server.
This is a good resource for understanding CommitableTransaction usage.
And this one on the CodeProject has brilliant, in-depth and under-the-hood coverage - Truly Understanding .NET Transactions and WCF Implementation.

Features Provided by System.Transactions

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/ee818755(v=vs.100).aspx

Implementing an Implicit Transaction using Transaction Scope

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/ee818746(v=vs.100).aspx

MSDN Articles by John Papa

ADO.NET and System.Transactions

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163847.aspx

Revisiting System.Transactions

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc163527.aspx

These are specific to TransactionScope (the way to go in most cases)

Here is a practical example of Using TransactionScope :

http://thewayofcode.wordpress.com/2011/12/11/handling-transactions-in-net-using-transactionscope/

This one gets in depth with the way a TransactionScope like functionality can be implemented. Gives you a good understanding of what is happening under the hood when using TransactionScope in some Repository implementations in multi-threaded scenarios.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc300805.aspx

Here is another example of implementing a transactional repository :

http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/31270/A-Transactional-Repository-Implementation-in-NET

There are excellent tips here about configuring TransactionScope when used with SQL Server:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dbrowne/archive/2010/06/03/using-new-transactionscope-considered-harmful.aspx

This is a good resource for CommitableTransaction usage - http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/55472/Committable-Transactions-in-C-SQL

And this one has brilliant under-the-hood coverage - http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/35087/Truly-Understanding-NET-Transactions-and-WCF-Impl

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Understanding and Using System.Transactions