Using TransactionScope simplifies this code tremendously by enclosing every ADO.NET call within a transaction -- even when the call is inside another method. You need to add a reference to ...

transactionScope.Complete(); } } catch { //Write code here to handle exceptions } And that’s all you need to do. You can now execute your application and test your transactional services.

If you do need something different (to combine several SaveChanges calls into a single transaction or to combine EF code with ADO.NET code in a transaction), then your first choice should be the ...