How to run two Entity Framework Contexts inside TransactionScope without MSDTC?

Question

This problem is not readily reproducible in a simple example here but was wondering if anyone has any experience and tips, here is the issue:

• using Entity

Answer 1

I think that what you need to do is to force your contexts to share single database connection. You will be able then to perform these two operations against two different contexts in single transaction. You can achieve this by passing one EntityConnection object to both of your context's constructors. Of course this approach will require you to pass this object to methods which update DB.

I have recently blogged about creating database context scope which will make using multiple EF contexts and transactions easier.