Microsoft Orleans: Develop a Distributed Banking App with Actors & C# (Part 5 - Grain Communication)

[@NickGaudreau-c2f]

Hi, thanks again for the videos, great work, please keep going. Question. Maybe I am ahead and you will explain in a later video - but when should you or why using ITransactionalState over IPersistentState?

[@NickGaudreau-c2f]

Is ITransactionalState simply a cleaner way to access, set, then update some state properties? Or is there more to it?

[@jumpstartCS]

Hey this will actually be covered in an upcoming video in more depth. We use ITransactionalState when we require our state to be updated in an ACID compliant transactional manner. In all other cases we should use IPersistantState as there is additional overhead and constraints when using transactions. Glad you're enjoying the videos so far feel free to ask more questions in future videos if you have any!