Starting the Distributed Transaction Coordinator from C#
The DTC is needed when a Winforms app is calling more than one stored procedure as part of a transaction. As the DTC is just a service, the standard ServiceController class can be used. A reference to System.ServiceProcess must be added first, and the code is as follows:
[Tags: msdtc dtc service transaction]
// Find the Distributed Transaction Controller service
ServiceController service = new ServiceController("MSDTC");
if (service.Status != ServiceControllerStatus.Running)
{
try
{
service.Start();
// Wait for up to 10 seconds for the service to start
TimeSpan timeSpan = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10);
service.WaitForStatus(ServiceControllerStatus.Running, timeSpan);
}
catch (TimeoutException exc)
{
MessageBox.Show(exc.Message);
}
}
[Tags: msdtc dtc service transaction]
