Charles Young has a great post on transactions within orchestrations. In it he mentions the Batch property of the ATOMIC scope. I concur with him that the documentation on this is very light, as well as any information out in the communities. Doing a little testing on my current project with Stephen Thomas (be sure to check out his blog), it has become apparent that the property acts just as Charles suspects. Our particular scenario - We had an orchestration processing a large sum of messages. At ......
Ok, sorry for the short hiatus….very busy times on my current project. Anyway, I previously mentioned some points around deployment. It turns out that using BTS Installer doesn’t work well when utilizing roles and parties. This doesn’t mean we have to scrap the BTSInstaller all together, we just have to do a little extra work in creating scripts that do the deployment as well as the undeployment, and then call those scripts from our MSI package. In the zip file (get it here), I’ve ......