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MSDTC and Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 Release Candidate

The Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 Release Candidate is available for download at...

Author: florinlazar Date: 12/13/2004

Don's Wiki Page about Transactions

Don Box has a section dedicated to Transactions on his wiki page at...

Author: florinlazar Date: 11/06/2004

An Introduction to the Web Services Architecture and Its Specifications

Felipe Cabrera, Chris Kurt and Don Box have an update to the white paper on Web Services...

Author: florinlazar Date: 11/02/2004

XA Transactions in Windows XP SP2

Service Pack 2 adds to Windows XP the same level of security as in Windows Server 2003 for XA...

Author: florinlazar Date: 10/28/2004

Don Box about System.Transactions

This is about an old article posted in MSDN Magazine but I want to make sure you didn't miss the...

Author: florinlazar Date: 10/13/2004

Propagating MSDTC transactions

MSDTC offers two types of propagation for transactions: Export/Import (the most known one) and...

Author: florinlazar Date: 10/02/2004

ADO.NET/System.Data blog

Today, in most of the cases, transactions (distributed or not) are used in combination with ADO.NET...

Author: florinlazar Date: 09/20/2004

Using distributed transactions in .Net 1.x without deriving from ServicedComponent

The most used feature of System.EnterpriseServices or COM+ is the distributed transaction support....

Author: florinlazar Date: 07/24/2004

Transactions made easy: System.Transactions

Currently in .Net Framework (v1.0 and v1.1) the support for transactions is offered by...

Author: florinlazar Date: 07/23/2004

On the Road to Indigo

Richard Turner takes us on the road to Indigo: https://blogs.msdn.com/richturner666/. You'll find...

Author: florinlazar Date: 07/19/2004

.NET Enterprise Services Performance

Compare the performance of native COM+ and .Net Enterprise Services components and read some...

Author: florinlazar Date: 07/19/2004

XP SP2 and Transactions

The preview (RC2) of Windows XP Service Pack 2 is available for download at...

Author: florinlazar Date: 06/18/2004

Windows Server Roadmap

Bob Muglia presents the Windows Server roadmap:...

Author: florinlazar Date: 05/28/2004

What is MSDTC and why do I need to care about it?

I've been talking for a while about MSDTC and transactions without explaining them. I know many of...

Author: florinlazar Date: 03/04/2004

Distributed Transactions in Windows Workgroups

By default, distributed transactions will not work when at least one of the computers involved...

Author: florinlazar Date: 03/02/2004

Where to find answers to your questions

These are the newsgroups you should use when looking for answers related to COM+, Enterprise...

Author: florinlazar Date: 02/10/2004

Another Preview of Indigo and Transactions

As part of Microsoft Longhorn Developer Preview, Clemens Vasters talks more about Indigo @...

Author: florinlazar Date: 02/02/2004

Prepare your app today for tomorrow's "Indigo"

If you are writing applications using ASMX, Remoting or Enterprise Services today, the impact of...

Author: florinlazar Date: 02/01/2004

.Net and Transactions

In case you are wondering if .Net will provide support for local and distributed transactions...

Author: florinlazar Date: 02/01/2004

Developing software in a non-privileged environment

You (i.e. your login account) don’t have to be a member of local Administrators group to do...

Author: florinlazar Date: 01/09/2004

MSDTC must run under NT AUTHORITYNetworkService account

Starting with Windows XP and continuing with Windows Server 2003, the account under which MSDTC...

Author: florinlazar Date: 01/02/2004

ITransaction::Commit can return "In doubt" (XACT_E_INDOUBT)

ITransaction::Commit can return XACT_E_INDOUBT, without giving you any information about the outcome...

Author: florinlazar Date: 12/15/2003

The History of... Microsoft Windows

I always enjoyed reading history. I like to see how things evolved. Sometimes there are funny...

Author: florinlazar Date: 12/12/2003

Isolation Levels

MSDTC, COM+ or EnterpriseServices are allowing you to specify an isolation level for transactions so...

Author: florinlazar Date: 12/10/2003

More about buying online

I spent 4 hours looking on the web for a camcorder. In reality most of this time I was reading...

Author: florinlazar Date: 12/06/2003

Buying online

I'm looking around to buy a camcorder. I know what I want: a Sony DCR-TRV22 Handycam Mini DV Digital...

Author: florinlazar Date: 12/05/2003

Enable Network DTC Access in Windows Server 2003

When you install Windows Server 2003, most of the services will be off by default, including MSDTC...