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Our Own Forum is Now Live! Please Join Us at the "Transactions Programming Forum"

I'm really happy to announce that our own forum, dedicated to transactions in Windows and .Net is now live at http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=388&SiteID=1 The RSS feed for the forum is http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/rss.aspx?ForumID=388&Mode=0&SiteID=1

Transactions Sessions at PDC 2005

If you are at PDC this year, don't forget to attend the sessions related to transactions. An easy way to find these sessions is to go to http://commnet1.microsoftpdc.com/content/sessions.aspx and search by Keyword="transaction". I especially recommend

What do you want to know about transactions?

Please don't hesitate to send me your suggestions or questions or topics you would like to be discussed in this blog. You can post a comment to this post or use http://blogs.msdn.com/florinlazar/contact.aspx to let me know. I'll prioritize the list and

MSDN Product Feedback Center

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XA Transactions in Windows XP SP2

Service Pack 2 adds to Windows XP the same level of security as in Windows Server 2003 for XA transactions (transactions that are used with XA-compliant resource managers like Oracle, IBM DB/2 etc). See my previous post at http://blogs.msdn.com/florinlazar/archive/2003/12/04/41370.aspx

XP SP2 and Transactions

The preview (RC2) of Windows XP Service Pack 2 is available for download at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/winxppro/sp2preview.mspx The general info about it can be found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/security/productinfo/XPSP2/default.aspx

What is MSDTC and why do I need to care about it?

I've been talking for a while about MSDTC and transactions without explaining them. I know many of you reading this blog already know the terms, but some of the developers just entering the enterprise space don't know if they should care or not about

Where to find answers to your questions

These are the newsgroups you should use when looking for answers related to COM+, Enterprise Services or MSDTC: microsoft.public.platformsdk.complus_mts and microsoft.public.dotnet.framework.component_services . For Indigo answers, use microsoft.public.windows.developer.winfx.indigo

Isolation Levels

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 pass

Enable Network DTC Access in Windows Server 2003

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
 
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