So I’m developing a serviced component in C#, and this component is intended to model mixed mode transactional capability, in that some methods will be transactional and some not. Therefore the component is configured in COM+ as Transactions: Disabled.

The transactional methods will use SWC ServiceConfig to create a transactional context in which to perform work.

The problem I’ve found concerns use of the Inheritance property;

– If I set the property to Ignore, a new context is created which is not transactional (ContextUtil.IsInTransaction = false) and security is not enabled in the new context (which I would expect).

– If I set the property to Inherit, a new context is created which again is not transactional (ContextUtil.IsInTransaction = false) but this time security is enabled in the new context (fair enough, new context inherits this from existing context).

– If I don’t set the property at all, a new context is created which is transactional (ContextUtil.IsInTransaction = true) and security is not enabled in the new context (not sure what to expect at this point since I’ve not specified Ignore or Inherit).

The documentation states that this property defaults to “Inherit“, from my experience this doesn’t seem to be bourne out – is it a bug.

I’ve trawled the internet and not found anything, anyone else come across this??