June 2005 - Jim Johnson's Blog

  • Understanding nested transaction scopes

    The TransactionScope object is central to the System.Transactions model. At its simplest, it provides a very easy mechanism for demarcating transactions in the application -- i.e. using (TransactionScope s = new TransactionScope ()) { … s.Complete...
  • Feeding the hardware monkey

    Like a lot of people in our industry, I have a certain acquisitiveness with hardware -- I do like new toys every now and then. I'll admit that compared with many of the people I know, it isn't very high. I don' t need to upgrade my home machine very often...
  • Tech Ed next week

    If you are going, I hope that you get a chance to attend some of the Indigo presentations. There are also two talks that involve transactions that I've heard about: one by Clemens Vasters and one by Juval Lowry. I would expect them both to be interesting...