Advanced System.Transactions debugging

Question

Are there any tips, tricks or methods for obtaining profiling/logging/debug information on the runtime behaviour of System.Transactions.TransactionScope?

I have an application which is committing data to the database, even though I'm using System.Transactions.TransactionScope, where an exception is thrown and TransactionScope.Commit() is never called.

I was wondering if there are events or details on other classes used by TransactionScope that I can query at runtime to establish whether my commands (typed data adapters) are enlisting the ambient transaction or not.

Having looked at System.Transactions.dll using Reflector, I think the System.Transactions.Diagnostics namespace might help, but any examples would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

Check-out this article: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/madhuponduru/archive/2008/02/18/system-transactions-trace.aspx

Add following info to your application config file to trace System.Transactions calls

<configuration>
 <system.diagnostics>
  <sources>
   <source name="System.Transactions" switchValue="Information">
   <listeners>
    <add name="tx" type="System.Diagnostics.XmlWriterTraceListener" initializeData= "tx.log" />
   </listeners>
  </source>
 </sources>
</system.diagnostics>

MORE INFO: once you got trace file, you can open the trace in SvcTraceViewer.exe You can enable MSDTC transaction trace,CM trace to know more about transaction also Reference:

• http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms229979.aspx
• http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms678891.aspx
• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926099/
• http://support.microsoft.com/kb/898918/

Answer 2

Are you creating a transaction scope with parameters?

This behaviour would be expected for transaction scope option of Supress.

Otherwise could you post some code.