In the old days we acctually recommended use of the EditContext, but we’ve changed best practices for the reasons Jakob explains;

If an error occours as the changes you’ve applied so far are commited. This endangers the transaction.

Thank you for your reply. Good to know the stuff above. Gonna figure out what’s the best way at certain moments.

I’ve already heard of the Security-options, definitelly interested in the SectionTimer(seen the class in the API, didn’t know what to do with it.

Thank you for your information.

I can’t help give you a little info with using “using” statements. Ole and I prefered the “using” method as it seems very clean and intuitive.

However you can have problems with transactions using “using”s as it works as a try…finally construct.

Imagine that you update 3 fields:

using(new EditContext) {
item.Field["1"] = “1″;
item.Field["2"] = “2″;
item.Field["3"] = “3″;
}

and the second field throws an exception. This will actually commit the change to field 1, but not field 2 and 3.

This is why we kept the BeginEdit/EndEdit constructs.

BTW: Check out SecurityEnabler, SecurityDisabler, SecuritySwitcher and for something really useful: SectionTimer.
Just thought you should know.