Question

I have a repository where I have common methods for adding etc.

And I would like to run 3 methods as a transaction. Is that possible if each of them have “SaveChanges()” in them?

e.g

_somerep.AddCamel("test");

_somerep.AddGoo("test");

_somerep.AddGopher("test");

/Lasse

Answer 1

As long as the repository uses a single entity context and all insertions are handled by a single call to context.SaveChanges(), they are automatically enrolled in a transaction by Entity Framework.

You can also manage transactions via TransactionScope as mentioned here (but I wouldn’t suggest it since it requires Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator to be installed…and can cause some weird issues):

How to: Manage Transactions in the Entity Framework