WCF Multi-layer Services Development with Entity Framework Fourth Edition

Trade-offs of distributed transactions

Now, you have learned how to turn on distributed transaction support for a WCF service. Before you dive into the world of distributed transaction in your real-work environment, you need to be aware that distributed transaction support will impact your applications in a few areas, sometimes maybe significantly.

The following is a list of some of the impacts of using distributed transactions:

• Distributed transactions might introduce more complexity to your applications
• Distributed transactions might decrease the performance of your applications
• Distributed transactions might increase the deadlock probability of your processes

You should analyze your requirements, consider all the pros and cons of turning the distributed ...