Testing the distributed transaction support of the new WCF service

Now that we have changed the service to support distributed transactions and let the client propagate the transaction to the service, we will test this. We will first change the distributed transaction coordinator and firewall settings for the distributed transaction support of the WCF service, then propagate a transaction from the client to the service, and test the WCF service for multiple database support.

Configuring the Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator

In a subsequent section, we will call two services to update two databases on two different computers. As these two updates are wrapped within one distributed transaction, Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator ...

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