Question

I get the following error

Network access for Distributed Transaction Manager (MSDTC) has been
disabled. Please enable DTC for network access in the security
configuration for MSDTC using the Component Services Administrative
tool.

When I try to do the following

using (DataOneContext context1 = new DataOneContext())
{
     code...

     using (DataTwoContext context2 = new DataTwoContext())
     {
          more code...
     }
}

When I separate them, the code works. But to have things simple, it’d be easier for one to be in the other. Is it possible?

I would like to avoid enabling MSDTC.

DataOneContext and DataTwoContext are the tables in the DBML file (sorry I don’t know the technical term).

Each context is connecting to a different server.

Answer 1

I think you can do this by sharing the connection (assuming the same server). Transactions automatically get promoted to distributed transactions when they use different connections.

using (DataOneContext context1 = new DataOneContext()) 
{ 
     code... 

     using (DataTwoContext context2 = new DataTwoContext(context1.Connection)) 
     { 
         more code....
     } 
}