TransactionScope async limitations

[ProTip]

It may be worth discussing in limitations the apparent footgun with transaction scopes in that they do not support asynchronously committing or rolling back transactions.

In asp.net "async everything" is highly encouraged so the absence of await using or await scope.CompleteAsync() sent me down an internet rabbit hole trying to figure out if committing was blocking(yes of course).

This issue on dotnet seems to be requesting the API be extended for async complete/dispose: dotnet/runtime#1420 .

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• ID: 1073c238-9389-d826-a696-f1108a4f2ce0
• Version Independent ID: cf56babd-def0-d76e-8eee-e33341b6a009
• Content: Transactions - EF Core
• Content Source: entity-framework/core/saving/transactions.md
• Product: entity-framework
• Technology: entity-framework-core
• GitHub Login: @roji
• Microsoft Alias: avickers

[roji]

I've submitted #4307 to add a note on this.