101 Microsoft® Visual Basic® .NET Applications

Application #71. Use MSMQ

Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ) provides applications with a powerful yet simple mechanism for transferring data between two applications in an asynchronous fashion. The .NET Framework has the System.Messaging namespace to provide you with a set of classes that make sending and receiving messages from MSMQ queues remarkably easy. This topic examines some of those classes.

Building Upon... Application #72: Configuration Settings Application #78: Create a Windows Service Application #79: Use Thread Pooling Application #82: Serialize Objects Application #84: Asynchronous Calls

New Concepts

Working with a queue is focused around the MessageQueue class. This class provides methods for connecting to a queue, interrogating ...