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Message Queuing

Message queuing provides a loosely coupled application asynchronous integration model that fits into several application architectures. With the introduction of Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ), messaging has been a key component of applications developed using the Microsoft platform. The .NET Framework extends this capability through the System.Messaging namespace, which contains a set of classes to connect, monitor, and administer message queues and send, receive, and peek messages. The two main classes in the namespace are System.Messaging.MessageQueue and System.Messaging.Message. Whereas the former is the main class for manipulating message queues and sending and receiving messages, the latter provides a placeholder for the ...