Enterprise Transaction Services

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This article—Enterprise Transaction Services—is from Enterprise Services with the .NET Framework: Developing Distributed Business Solutions with .NET Enterprise Services, by Christian Nagel. Copyright © 2005 Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission. This article has been edited especially for C# Online.NET.  Read the book review!

Transaction Services

TRANSACTION SERVICES ARE USUALLY THE MAIN reason why Enterprise Services is used. So that you do not have to deal with transactions programmatically, Enterprise Services offers a way to use transactions by using attributes.

This chapter opens with an overview of transactions, and then examines how you can task transactions programmatically. With this knowledge, you will see the advantages of transaction services offered by .NET Enterprise Services. The focus of this chapter then turns to how you can use Enterprise Services transactions, and how you can access the new features offered with Windows Server 2003. Specifically, this chapter covers the following topics:

• Transaction overview

• Programmatic transactions

• Automatic transactions

• Transactions with services without components

• Transaction isolation levels