EF Transactions MSDTC?

Question

I'm having a bito f a problem with EF and transaction processing.

I'm trying to do this:

using(TransactionScope scope = new TransactionScope())
{
  using(MyEntities model = new MyEntities())
  {
    MyT thing = new MyT{ Value1 = "bla", Value2 = "bla2", Value3 = "foo" };
    model.MyT.AddObject(thing);
    model.SaveChanges();

    thing.Value4 = Service.Call("bar");

    // this call causes an exception in MSDTC
    model.SaveChanges();

    scope.Complete();
  }
}

The reason i do this is because I want to do an insert in to the db so MyT has a unique id that i passto the service when i make the call i then get back a unique ref and status from the service depicting what happened during the call which i then need to append to the record.

My understanding is that during a single transaction you can only update a record once / make an insert call but you can't do both as this creates a problem for some reason ... i used to have an MSDN article that explained some logical reason why this couldn't be done (likely lock related).

So my problem is how to get round this but ensure that in event of any failure in any of these calls i can still rollback.

Answer 1

Try creating the transactionscope with transaction options. In the transaction options specify ReadUncommitted.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.transactions.isolationlevel.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms149853.aspx