<p>I have read (or perhaps heard from a colleague) that in .NET, TransactionScope can hit its timeout and then VoteCommit (as opposed to VoteRollback).  Is this accurate or hearsay?  I couldn't track down information on the web that talked about this issue (if it IS an issue), so I wonder if anyone has any direct experience with it and can shed some light?</p>

If you mean in relation to SQL Server, then there is an issue that you can fix in the connection string; see my reply
here
, or the full details
here
.
The short version is: ensure you have
```
Transaction Binding=Explicit Unbind;
```
in the connection string.
It isn't actually doing a vote commit - the transaction (and any early operations) has rolled back, but any subsequent operations (still inside the
```
TransactionScope
```
) can get performed in the nul-transaction, i.e. auto-commit.