You are wondering why your DB-transaction, startet by using(TransactionScope scope = new TransactionScope(timeout)) runs into a timeout after 10 minutes? Because the <machineSettings maxTimeout=”00:10:00″/> in the system.transactions section of the machine.config has a default value of 10 minutes. And whatever is set as timeout of the TransactionScope by code – …

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