MSDTC transaction requires Full Trust and can't run in a sandboxed solution

This article helps you resolve the problem where a Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator (MSDTC) transaction requires Full Trust and can't run in a sandboxed solution.

Original product version:   .NET Framework 4.5
Original KB number:   2998281

Symptoms

Assume that you're running an application in sandbox mode (or simply running an application without .NET Full Trust). When you try operations within System.Transactions that require access to a distributed transaction coordinator (typically MSDTC), you meet the following exception:

System.Security.SecurityException: Request failed.

The server stack trace is as follows:

at System.ServiceModel.Transactions.OleTxTransactionFormatter.WriteTransaction(Transaction transaction, Message message)
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.TransactionChannel1.WriteTransactionToMessage(Message message, TransactionFlowOption txFlowOption) at System.ServiceModel.Channels.TransactionChannel1.WriteTransactionDataToMessage(Message message, MessageDirection direction)
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.TransactionDuplexChannelGeneric`1.Send(Message message, TimeSpan timeout)
at System.ServiceModel.Dispatcher.DuplexChannelBinder.Request(Message message, TimeSpan timeout)
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel.Call(String action, Boolean oneway, ProxyOperationRuntime operation, Object[] ins, Object[] outs, TimeSpan timeout)
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannel.Call(String action, Boolean oneway, ProxyOperationRuntime operation, Object[] ins, Object[] outs)
at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannelProxy.InvokeService(IMethodCallMessage methodCall, ProxyOperationRuntime operation) at System.ServiceModel.Channels.ServiceChannelProxy.Invoke(IMessage message)

Cause

This behavior is by design. Certain operations within System.Transactions require Full Trust because they require access to privileged services. Without Full Trust, these operations can't be run. The following operations currently require it:

• All of the methods on the TransactionInterop class
• All variations of the Transaction.EnlistDurable method
• Transaction.EnlistPromotableSinglePhase
• Transaction.PromoteAndEnlistDurable
• Access to the TransactionManager.DistributedTransactionStarted event
• Access to the TransactionManager.HostCurrentCallback property
• Usage of TransactionManager.Reenlist and TransactionManager.RecoveryComplete
• Usage of the TransactionScope class when an EnterpriseServicesInteropOption is specified

Workaround

To work around this behavior, run the application with Full Trust, or create a Global Assembly Cache (GAC) assembly proxy that accepts partially trusted callers, and then call this assembly from the sandboxed application.

References

AllowPartiallyTrustedCallersAttribute Class