Last time I wrote a post on MSDTC under Vista. Here I’d like to talk a general MSDTC issue, which is not Vista-specific. Internally MSDTC uses NetBIOS names and passes them to RPC to talk to remote machines. This requires both server and client to be able to resolve each other’s machine name. Sometimes things …
Background Consider the following two scenarios: 1. You have implemented a .NET application accessing a specific COM+ service with automatic transaction processing. You derived a class from ServicedComponent, set the Transaction attribute for the class, and applied the Automatic attribute to a method which opens a SqlConnection. 2. Inside a TransactionScope, you wanted to open …
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