In my research about rolling back transactions in EF4, it seems everybody refers to this blog post or offers a similar explanation. In my scenario, I'm wanting to do this in a unit testing scenario where I want to rollback practically everything I do within my unit testing context to keep from updating the data in the database (yeah, we'll increment counters but that's okay). In order to do this, is it best to follow the following plan? Am I missing some concept or anything else major with this (aside from my SetupMyTest
and PerformMyTest
functions won't really exist that way)?
[TestMethod]
public void Foo
{
using (var ts = new TransactionScope())
{
// Arrange
SetupMyTest(context);
// Act
PerformMyTest(context);
var numberOfChanges = context.SaveChanges(SaveOptions.AcceptAllChangesAfterSave);
// if there's an issue, chances are that an exception has been thrown by now.
// Assert
Assert.IsTrue(numberOfChanges > 0, "Failed to _____");
// transaction will rollback because we do not ever call Complete on it
}
}