Question

I need a way to serialize objects in a transactional context.

Given the following pseudo-code:

transation.Begin()
try{
    serializeObj(obj1);
    serializeObj(obj2);
    serializeObj(obj3);
}
catch(Exception){
    transaction.RollBack();
}
transaction.Commit();

I want that, after this code runs, or all the objects had been serialized or none of then had been serialized.

I dont think TransactionScpe gives me this ability.
I would prefer some built-in .NET mechanism instead some external library.

Thanks.

Answer 1

If you have a transactional filesystem (transaction ntfs), I think you can achieve what you want via the methods discussed in this and that blog. Also alphafs might be worth a look (they wrote a managed wrapper for the transaction ntfs) but I don’t know the status of the project.