TransactionScope With Files In C# [duplicate]

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• How to write a transaction to cover Moving a file and Inserting record in database? 4 answers

I've been using TransactionScope to work with the database and it feels nice. What I'm looking for is the following:

using(var scope=new TransactionScope())
{               
    // Do something with a few files...
    scope.Complete();
}

but obviously this doesn't work -- if there are 20 files, and an exception occurs on the 9th file, all previous 8 remain changed and the rest unchanged -- no rollback is performed. So, what would be the best way to implement a scope-like behavior for files?

I'm hoping there is a simple answer, but if not, could you just give me a few pointers, or point me to an related article?

Answer 1

You're looking for Transactional NTFS, introduced by Windows Vista.

Here is a managed wrapper.

Answer 2

You can try the .NET Transactional File Manager library available on Codeplex and NuGet. It supports any file system and is not a wrapper over Transactional NTFS.

From the project description:

Transactional File Manager is a .NET API that supports including file system operations such as file copy, move, delete, append, etc. in a transaction. It's an implementation of System.Transaction.IEnlistmentNotification (works with System.Transactions.TransactionScope).