>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.

Depends <s>... but yes you probably need to have it at least installed. If you open multiple connections then (ie. standard open then close scenario with multiple connections) TransactionScope will promote to a distributed transaction because it has to manage these multiple connections. If all operations are performed on a single connection though then the transactions uses plain ADO.NET transactions.

I haven't actually used this but I was just reading about this a couple of days ago doing some research.

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>HTH
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>>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