Transaction Tracking Typed Datasets Using SqlTransaction
July 20th, 2010 | 
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I recently had the need to implement transaction tracking between two separate databases on two separate servers.
Unfortunately, I could not be sure that DTC was implemented on either server, so using transaction tracking with the TransactionScope wasn’t an option.
I also wanted to be able to wire this in easily to the existing 3-tiered framework we are currently using so that what I ended up with could easily be implemented by other developers in a similar situation.
Posted in Advanced CSharp | 
Tags: .net 3.5, dataset, sqltransaction, tableadapter, transactions | 
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