Cannot access SqlTransaction object to rollback in catch block

Question

I\'ve got a problem, and all articles or examples I found seem to not care about it.

I want to do some database actions in a transaction. What I want to do is very s

Answer 1

Microsoft samples, place the begin trans outside of the try/catch see this msdn link. I assume that the BeginTransaction method should either throw an exception OR begin a transaction but never both (although the documentation does not say this is impossible).

However, you may be better of using TransactionScope which manages a lot of the (not so) heavy lifting for you: this link