ITransaction::Commit can return XACT_E_INDOUBT, without giving you any information about the outcome of the transaction. This can happen if the connection between the MSDTC proxy and the TM was lost. The transaction may have committed or aborted. The...

I always enjoyed reading history. I like to see how things evolved. Sometimes there are funny stories, sometimes there are sad stories. But there is always something to learn from history. It is sad we don't have the time and physical capacity to learn...

MSDTC , COM+ or EnterpriseServices are allowing you to specify an isolation level for transactions so that you can increase concurrency to improve performance and scalability. But, the value you set for the isolation level is used by MSDTC only to...

I spent 4 hours looking on the web for a camcorder. In reality most of this time I was reading reviews about resellers. Until I found this PC World article: Web buyer beware . And all the research ended. Now I know why those websites sell products...

I'm looking around to buy a camcorder. I know what I want: a Sony DCR-TRV22 Handycam Mini DV Digital Camcorder. But I'm not decided from where to buy it. I'm looking at http://shopping.com/xPC-JVC_DCR_TRV22_MiniDV_Handycam_ and I see the price range...

When you install Windows Server 2003, most of the services will be off by default, including MSDTC network access. If you are using COM+/Enterprise Services and [Transactions], you are most likely to hit errors when you want to go distributed: flow transactions...

If you are using COM+/Enterprise Services components that talk to resource managers like Oracle or other XA RM, on Windows Server 2003 you need to make some additional steps to allow this scenario to work. This is due to a security change in MSDTC that...

Yes, it is possible to specify a per-component application config when using a ServicedComponent with activation type set to Server Application. By default all Server Applications are sharing dllhost.exe.config located in %windir%\system32. But there...

The word is out and nobody explains it better than Don Box: http://msdn.microsoft.com/longhorn/understanding/pillars/indigo/default.aspx?pull=/msdnmag/issues/04/01/Indigo/default.aspx . The future of transactional programming will be defined by System...

My name is Florin Lazar. I'm a member of XML Enterprise Services team at Microsoft. My main focus is making sure that our transaction services (MSDTC, System.Transactions etc) work as they should. Why blogging? Because I find it to be a great way...

My blog is moving now from http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/florinl/  to http://weblogs.asp.net/florinlazar I will start migrating the existing posts to this new location.