Question

I am executing multiple stored procedures from within a TransactionScope. Is there any way to execute a SqlCommand (while still within the scope of the using statement) but remove it from the transaction?

There are SqlCommands executed before and after it that do need to be within the one transaction.

Answer 1

You can create a new SqlConnection instance with the ‘Enlist‘ connection parameter set to ‘false’

SqlConnectionStringBuilder csBuilder = new SqlConnectionStringBuilder(existingCon.ConnectionString);
csBuilder.Enlist = false;
SqlConnection newConnection = new SqlConnection(csBuilder.ConnectionString);     
SqlCommand commandNotInTheTx = newConnection.CreateCommand();