Default Transaction Timeout
- by MattH
I used to set Transaction timeouts by using TransactionOptions.Timeout, but have decided for ease of maintenance to use the config approach:
<system.transactions>
<defaultSettings timeout="00:01:00" />
</system.transactions>
Of course, after putting this in, I wanted to test it was working, so reduced the timeout to 5 seconds, then ran a test that lasted longer than this - but the transaction does not appear to abort! If I adjust the test to set TransactionOptions.Timeout to 5 seconds, the test works as expected
After Investigating I think the problem appears to relate to TransactionOptions.Timeout, even though I'm no longer using it.
I still need to use TransactionOptions so I can set IsolationLevel, but I no longer set the Timeout value, if I look at this object after I create it, the timeout value is 00:00:00, which equates to infinity. Does this mean my value set in the config file is being ignored?
To summarise:
Is it impossible to mix the config
setting, and use of
TransactionOptions
If not, is there
any way to extract the config setting
at runtime, and use this to set the
Timeout property
[Edit] OR Set the default isolation-level without using TransactionOptions
