To use transaction scope, I am pretty sure you need to have Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator configured whereas you don't if you use a plain old transaction.

HTH

>Hi,
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>We've been milling around somewhat - sometimes using the Transaction and sometimes the TransactionScope class and should probably be standardising on one or other.
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>We're leaning towards TransactionScope because it looks cleaner/simpler and we haven't spotted any obvious cons...
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>But if you've made this decision which did you choose (and why)?
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>Regards,
>Viv