MSDTC on server ‘Tim-GUO-PC’ is unavailable.

MSDTC on server ‘Tim-GUO-PC’ is unavailable.

Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.

Exception Details: System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: MSDTC on server ‘GopinathM’ is unavailable.

 

解决：

This error occurs when the “Distributed Transaction Coordinator” service is not running. To start a distributed transactions with TransactionScope object, the windows service “Distributed Transaction Coordinator” should be running.

To fix the problem just start the service “Distributed Transaction Coordinator” using Windows Service manager.

Here are the detailed steps for starting the service

1. Click on Start–>Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Services (or simply type services.msc in the run command box and hit enter); display “Services” manager
2. Scroll through the list and identify the service “Distributed Transaction Coordinator”
3. Right on the service and choose “Start”