Question

In our application, during save operation we are data to almost 15 child tables. When some error occurred, we have data discrepancy in tables. So we decided to use TransactionScope. When we use that it gives error saying “Transaction has aborted”, StackTrace display following.

 at System.Transactions.TransactionStateAborted.BeginCommit(InternalTransaction tx, Boolean asyncCommit, AsyncCallback asyncCallback, Object asyncState)
   at System.Transactions.CommittableTransaction.Commit()
   at System.Transactions.TransactionScope.InternalDispose()
   at System.Transactions.TransactionScope.Dispose()

Our code looks like

using (TransactionScope tScope = new TransactionScope())
                {
                    dataManager.AddFood(food);
                    if (!ModelState.IsValid)
                        throw new ApplicationException("Model state is invalid");
                    if (beingCloned)
                        food.IsUserFood = false;



                dataManager.Save();
                if (!food.IsUserFood)
                    dataManager.GenerateSearchRecords(food.FoodID);

                FoodManager foodManager = new FoodManager();
                foodManager.CopyFoodToHistory(food);

                if (beingCloned)
                {
                    foodManager.CreateUserFoodCopyForClonedFood(food);
                    HttpPostedFileBase file = ControllerContext.HttpContext.Request.Files["Image"];

                    if (file != null && file.FileName.Length > 0)
                        foodManager.UpdateMediaCopyForClonedFood(food, true);
                    else
                        foodManager.UpdateMediaCopyForClonedFood(food);
                }
                tScope.Complete();
            }

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

TransactionScope can be used with multiple DataContexts, but as soon
as more than one connection is involved the transaction is escalated
to a MSDTC/XA/distributed transaction. For that to work you need to
have MSDTC running on both the system where you code runs and on the
database server.

Alternatively, you can avoid escalation to a distributed transaction
if you create an explicit connection within the transactionscope and
pass that to your datacontexts; that way the TransactionScope will not
escalate to a distributed transaction, and won’t rely on MSDTC…

https://stackoverflow.com/a/1592133/102937