NHibernate 3.0: TransactionScope and Auto-Flushing

Question

In NHibernate 3.0, FlushMode.Auto does not work when running under an ambient transaction only (that is, without starting an NHibernate transaction). Should it?

Answer 1

The answer provided by Diego does not work in the case where you have an oracle database. (releated question). The session.BeginTransaction will fail because the connection is already part of a transaction.

Looks like we have to write some code around this problem in our application (WCF,NHibernate, Oracle), but it just feels like something that NHibernate should provide out of the box. So if anyone has a good answer, it would be really appreciated.