Florin Lazar - Consistency Checkpoint

System.Transactions and Allow Inbound/Outbound DTC Settings

florinlazar — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:27:00 GMT

If you do distributed transactions across the network, you know about Allow Inbound and Allow Outbound security settings for DTC (available by running dcomcnfg or by opening Component Services). The help describes these settings as: Allow Inbound...(read more)

Intro for Microsoft Azure .Net Service Bus

florinlazar — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 05:10:00 GMT

Clemens Vasters gives a great introduction to Microsoft Azure .Net Service Bus and its 4 feature areas: Naming, Registry, Connectivity, and Eventing. Find it at http://vasters.com/clemensv/PermaLink,guid,92d78bee-2cfd-4a29-95ab-c5abb9b905e7.aspx...(read more)

Atbroker.exe application error - CTRL-ALT-END in a remote session

florinlazar — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:20:00 GMT

I use remote desktop daily. The Atbroker.exe application error followed by black screen seemed to be gone for a while. Now it is back. The only solution that I know of and which works most of the times is "CTRL-ALT-END" (the equivalent of “CTRL-ALT-DEL...(read more)

When not to use transactions and where you can't use transactions

florinlazar — Fri, 09 May 2008 01:21:00 GMT

Transactions are great when everyone plays in. You group a set of activities together under a transaction and you start executing them. If anything bad happens along the way or something doesn't go as planned, invoke rollback and all is taking care of...(read more)

MSDTC and COM+ Configuration Tool in Vista

florinlazar — Thu, 08 May 2008 01:01:00 GMT

To access the MSDTC and COM+ configuration tool in Windows Vista, also known as Component Services MMC, you have the following options: 1. Run “dcomcnfg” 2. Or run: %SystemRoot%\System32\comexp.msc 3. Or if you prefer, you can add a shortcut...(read more)

Exception Handling without catch(Exception)

florinlazar — Wed, 07 May 2008 09:58:00 GMT

The design guidelines for exception handling are quite clear on avoiding “catch all” and/or avoiding catching exceptions you can’t handle. But there are cases when you really need to know if the try block completed successfully or not, and possibly take...(read more)

Working with CMD and Long Path Names

florinlazar — Tue, 06 May 2008 22:54:00 GMT

I like using the command prompt for a lot of things and working with long (or very long) path names is something that is common these days. Fortunately, you can customize cmd by using "prompt". Do a “prompt /?” in a command window to see all the options...(read more)

How to Use System.Data with System.Transactions and Maintain Atomicity and Data Consistency

florinlazar — Mon, 05 May 2008 13:04:00 GMT

The Bug I call it a bug. Initially I was persuaded to believe it was a feature; later I was "convinced" that it is now a matter of app compat and it can't be changed anymore. Let’s look at the following code: SqlConnection connection1 ...(read more)

Limitation of TransactionScope (and using)

florinlazar — Mon, 05 May 2008 11:38:00 GMT

If you read the documentation for TransactionScope , you will find: "If no exception occurs within the transaction scope […], then the transaction in which the scope participates is allowed to proceed. If an exception does occur within the transaction...(read more)

Avoiding Transaction Promotion with Multiple Connections - Improvements in System.Data and SQL Server 2008

florinlazar — Sat, 03 May 2008 02:02:00 GMT

Great news! The new updates added to System.Data and SQL Server 2008 finally allow multiple Open/Close connections to the same SQL Server without promoting the transaction to MSDTC. This was by far the most requested feature for the System.Transactions...(read more)