MS DTC Programmer's Reference

This chapter describes the OLE Transaction interfaces for developing MS DTC applications with C or C++.

This chapter first describes the DtcGetTransactionManager function. It then describes the following interfaces:

ITransaction
ITransactionDispenser
ITransactionOptions
ITransactionOutcomeEvents

Applications that are written in C and C++ will also make use of functions and interfaces not described here. For information about other functions and interfaces, see the following sources:

• Applications that use ODBC must use the SQL_COPT_SS_ENLIST_IN_DTC driver-specific connection option of the SQLSetConnectionOption statement. This connection option is described in Programming ODBC for Microsoft SQL Server.
• Applications that use DB-Library must use the dbenlisttrans or dbenlistxatrans function. These functions are described in Part 7, "What's New for DB-Library for C," in What's New in SQL Server 6.5.
• Applications that use ITransactionOutcomeEvents must use the connection point mechanism. For information about connection points, see the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) Development Library.
• Applications can call stored procedures that are written in Transact-SQL and that use MS DTC transactions. For information about the Transact-SQL BEGIN DISTRIBUTED TRANSACTION statement, see Part 4, "What's New for Transact-SQL," in What's New in SQL Server 6.5.